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

Jefferson County, Ohio is scored end-to-end by DLRadar for property distress, drawn only from deterministic public records. Bank/credit headwind for the county is 59 on a 0–100 scale, a moderate reading. There are 23 scored ZIPs in the county (mean composite 14/100). ZIP-level distress ranges from 15/100 at the top down to 2/100.

Currently expansion, Jefferson County saw prices rise 8.5% year over year (phase confidence 58/100). Even as prices climb, pockets of distress persist which the scoring still flags.

At +8.5% YoY (58/100 confidence), well-bought parcels resell faster where the scoring still flags pressure. A mid-cycle 59/100 lender reading means a blend the ZIP scores sort out.

By composite, 43913 (15/100), 43917 (15/100), 43925 (15/100), 43926 (15/100), 43930 (15/100), 43938 (15/100) top the county — tap any ZIP to go deeper. Further scored ZIPs: 43939, 43943, 43944, 43948, 43952, 43953, 43961, 43963, 43964, 43971.

Profile-wise, Jefferson County's tracked footprint show incomes around $56,946, poverty running near 16.8%, median home values around $119,375 (below the national figure), vacancy near 13.6%, 78% owner-occupancy, a median age of 47.9. Read together, they shape the supply of motivated sellers and the speed of resale.

Net of it all, 14/100 over 23 ZIPs means the opportunity hides below the average rather than a blanket buy. Inside DLRadar, each Jefferson County property carries owner, APN and address, its own score, the lender behind it and an exit read.

Whether Jefferson County, Ohio carries heavy distress or only a handful of flagged parcels, every score here is built the same deterministic way — from recorded foreclosures, tax delinquency, liens and lender stress — so Jefferson County can be compared directly against any county in the country.

Scores in Jefferson County, Ohio exist to concentrate effort: a handful of ZIPs hold most of the distress, and the rest seldom justify the acquisition cost. Provenance for Jefferson County is explicit: recorders and courts for filings, FHFA for prices, FDIC for lenders. No interpolation, no synthetic values.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Jefferson County are 43913 (15/100), 43917 (15/100), 43925 (15/100), 43926 (15/100), 43930 (15/100), 43938 (15/100). DLRadar also scores 43939, 43943, 43944, 43948, 43952, 43953, 43961, 43963 and more across the county. Each code carries its own composite built from that ZIP's foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien and lender signals, so two neighboring ZIPs can diverge sharply even inside one county.

DLRadar's composite for Jefferson 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.