Franklin County, OH: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Franklin County, OH, Ohio: 50 ZIP codes scored, Franklin County, OH averaging 31/100 (moderate, Franklin, OH), from 12 to 33. Franklin County, OH is in its peak phase (Franklin, OH confidence 22/100): Franklin, OH home prices up 3.0% (Franklin, OH) over twelve months. Franklin County, OH lender headwind: 45/100.

Highest-scoring Franklin County, OH ZIPs: 43002 (33/100), 43004 (33/100), 43026 (33/100), 43081 (33/100), 43085 (33/100), 43109 (33/100). Also scored in Franklin County, OH: 43123, 43126, 43201, 43202, 43203, 43204, 43205, 43206, 43207, 43209.

Across Franklin County, OH's scored ZIPs: median home value $308,156, household income $82,419, 8.8% vacancy, 15.4% poverty, 54% owner-occupied, median age 35.8.

Franklin County, OH insurance distress 64/100 (#805 in the US); FEMA hazard 52/100 for Franklin, OH; 2 federal disaster declarations in Franklin County, OH since 2023 (2 flood); 74 Franklin, OH NFIP flood claims, $541K paid; Franklin, OH construction distress 61/100.

34 banks with 280 branches lend in Franklin County, OH; Franklin, OH weighted bank stress 62/100, highest 89/100 in Franklin, OH.

Franklin County, OH unemployment 3.4% (Franklin, OH -0.6 pts, six months); 8,845 new housing units permitted in Franklin County, OH over twelve months, Franklin, OH down 11% from 9,896; Franklin, OH home prices +9.5% a year (Franklin, OH) over three years.

595,469 housing units in Franklin County, OH; 257,703 Franklin, OH renter households; 43% of Franklin, OH renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 21% (Franklin, OH) half or more.

Franklin County, OH ranks #1,860 nationally on the opportunity index (Franklin, OH, among all ranked counties); Franklin, OH scores 28.2/100 and Franklin, OH sits #22 inside Ohio. Franklin, OH is in the early_signal opportunity phase; Franklin, OH's primary driver is construction, Franklin, OH second driver bank institutional; Franklin, OH moved up 361 places. 160 short-sale listings across Franklin, OH; 101 days on market observed in Franklin, OH; 7.4% vacancy over 50 Franklin, OH ZIPs.

0.8% of Franklin County, OH mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Franklin, OH's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 1.7% (CFPB county sample). Franklin, OH's ninety-day rate is unchanged on twelve months earlier; the Franklin, OH peak since 2008 was 4.1% in January 2010; Ohio overall reads 1.0%.

Franklin County, OH has 24 watched banks; 24 Franklin, OH banks sit in an elevated band. Franklin, OH footprints: Huntington National Bank (44 branches, stress 63) in Franklin, OH; Jpmorgan Chase Bank Na (40 branches, stress 65) in Franklin, OH; Fifth Third Bank Na (30 branches, stress 62) in Franklin, OH.

HUD lists 131 assisted multifamily properties in Franklin County, OH with 13,527 units; 5,863 Franklin, OH units are assisted, 39 Franklin, OH properties under project-based Section 8.

42,370 of the 595,469 housing units in Franklin, OH sit vacant. Franklin County, OH permitted 6,696 multifamily units in twelve months; Franklin, OH's one-to-four unit structures added 2,149 units in Franklin County, OH.