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

Highland County, Ohio is mapped parcel-to-ZIP by DLRadar's public-record distress engine. County-level credit and bank headwind reads 60/100 — elevated, a sign of lender stress locally. 15 ZIP codes are tracked county-wide, averaging 13/100 distress. The county's ZIP scores run from 9 up to 17/100.

The county market is in a expansion phase: home prices rose 6.0% over the past year, a 34/100-confidence read. While the county appreciates, the laggards keep building and the breakdown below pinpoints them.

At +6.0% YoY (34/100 confidence), liquidity improves for clean exits where the scoring still flags pressure. Its 60/100 lender headwind is a buyer tailwind: short sales and foreclosures accelerate.

Distress concentrates in ZIP 45154 (17/100), ZIP 45118 (16/100), ZIP 45612 (16/100), ZIP 45660 (16/100), ZIP 45679 (16/100), ZIP 45171 (15/100) — drill into any for the parcel-level read. Further scored ZIPs: 45697, 45159, 45132, 45133, 45142, 45155, 45172, 45123, 45135.

Underneath the scores, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Highland County run a 15.5% poverty rate, 11.8% of units sitting vacant, household income averaging about $65,283, below the national median, residents with a median age around 38.6, 77% of homes owner-occupied, typical home values near $171,220. Read together, they shape who is forced to sell and how readily the market absorbs it.

Highland County, Ohio's 13/100 average over 15 ZIPs says the opportunity hides below the average and not a county-wide play. Inside DLRadar, each Highland County property carries owner, APN and address, a distress reading, the lender on title and exit timing.

Because Highland County, Ohio is scored on the identical public-record model used nationwide, even a quiet county is measured on one scale — letting you weigh Highland County against neighboring markets or the rest of Ohio on equal footing.

The practical read on Highland County, Ohio is a targeting one — find the ZIPs holding real financial pressure, then work the parcels underneath them. The Highland County read is rebuilt from public records as they post — no modeling fills the gaps — so what you see is what the documents support, refreshed on each ingest.

The ZIP breakdown for Highland County leads with 45154 (17/100), 45118 (16/100), 45612 (16/100), 45660 (16/100), 45679 (16/100), 45171 (15/100). DLRadar also scores 45697, 45159, 45132, 45133, 45142, 45155, 45172, 45123 and more across the county. Because each ZIP is graded on its own foreclosure, tax and lender record, the county's distress is best read code by code rather than as a single number.

Under Highland County's headline composite sit distinct layers — recorded foreclosures, tax and lien delinquency, mortgage stress and bank headwind — each scored separately before they roll up, so the same total can describe very different markets.