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

Hancock County, Ohio is scored end-to-end by DLRadar for property distress, drawn only from deterministic public records. The county's ZIP scores run from 5 up to 19/100. Lender pressure in Hancock County registers 49/100 — a moderate bank-stress headwind. 24 ZIP codes are tracked county-wide, averaging 16/100 distress.

In its peak phase, Hancock County home prices rose 3.9% across the last year, a 28/100-confidence read. At this stage of the cycle, blanket buying underperforms with opportunity concentrated by ZIP.

At +3.9% YoY and 28/100 confidence, opportunity is parcel-specific and a county-wide sweep stays on the shelf. Mid-range bank stress at 49/100 means a blend the ZIP scores sort out.

Highest scores land in 44804 (19/100), 44817 (19/100), 45814 (19/100), 45816 (19/100), 45840 (19/100), 45841 (19/100); each opens to a full parcel breakdown. Other tracked Hancock County ZIPs include 45858, 45867, 45868, 45881, 45889, 45890, 45897, 45817, 45872, 44802.

Demographically, Hancock County's scored ZIPs run home values averaging roughly $177,729, below the US, incomes around $68,977, an owner-occupied share of 82%, residents with a median age around 38.5, 5% of units sitting vacant, 9.1% of households below the poverty line. Numbers like these frame both the distress on offer and the exit velocity.

At 16/100 composite over 24 ZIPs, distress here is parcel-specific where the ZIP scores point. Subscribers get each Hancock County parcel's owner, APN and address, a parcel-level score plus bank exposure and liquidity read.

The distress read for Hancock County, Ohio is refreshed as new public records post and uses the same methodology coast to coast, so Hancock County stays directly comparable to any other market you track.

Approach Hancock County by rank rather than by average — the 16/100 county figure conceals the spread, since the returns live in the top-scoring ZIPs. Every figure traces to a public federal or county source — recorder and court records for foreclosure and liens, FHFA for the price cycle, FDIC for lender stress — and DLRadar leaves a signal blank rather than estimating where Hancock County data is thin.

Drilling in, Hancock County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 44804 (19/100), 44817 (19/100), 45814 (19/100), 45816 (19/100), 45840 (19/100), 45841 (19/100). DLRadar also scores 45858, 45867, 45868, 45881, 45889, 45890, 45897, 45817 and more across the county. Every one of these is scored independently — a ZIP's composite reflects its own recorded distress, which is why the county average alone hides where the real pressure sits.

DLRadar's composite for Hancock County blends several independent signals — foreclosure and pre-foreclosure filings, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, and the bank-stress headwind of the lenders operating locally — into one 0–100 score per ZIP, so a market can rank high on one axis and low on another.