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

Knox County, Ohio sits inside DLRadar's nationwide distress index, built entirely from public records. ZIP-level distress ranges from 20/100 at the top down to 14/100. 16 ZIP codes are tracked county-wide, averaging 17/100 distress. On bank and credit headwind, Knox County scores 26/100.

In its peak phase, Knox County home prices rose 3.9% across the last year (phase confidence 28/100). With values leveling off, the opportunity narrows leaving the wins in individual deals.

Near the cycle top at +3.9% YoY (28/100 confidence), opportunity is parcel-specific so the headline market won't hand it over. A contained 26/100 bank headwind puts the live signals on tax delinquency, probate and liens.

By composite, 43080 (20/100), 43822 (20/100), 43005 (17/100), 43011 (17/100), 43014 (17/100), 43022 (17/100) top the county — tap any ZIP to go deeper. Also scored across the county: 43028, 43037, 43050, 44822, 44628, 44813, 43006, 43019, 43843, 44842.

On the housing-and-income side, Knox County's tracked footprint come in at 10.4% of units sitting vacant, home values averaging roughly $224,231, below the US, household income averaging about $73,358, roughly at the national median, a median age of 41, 7.8% of households below the poverty line, 79% owner-occupancy. Read together, they frame the supply of motivated sellers and the speed of resale.

All in at 17/100 over 16 ZIPs, the opportunity hides below the average for a disciplined buyer. Unlock Knox County to see every parcel's owner, APN and address, scoring, lienholder detail and an estimated exit speed.

No county is too small to score: Knox County, Ohio runs through the same foreclosure, tax, lien and bank-stress model as every major metro, so Knox County's numbers mean exactly what they mean anywhere else in Ohio.

For an acquisition buyer, the practical use of Knox County, Ohio's scores is triage: the ZIPs and parcels carrying the highest composite are where motivated sellers and below-market exits concentrate, while lower-scored areas rarely justify the marketing spend. The Knox County scoring is reproducible from public sources alone, and DLRadar declines to estimate where the underlying record is incomplete.

Drilling in, Knox County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 43080 (20/100), 43822 (20/100), 43005 (17/100), 43011 (17/100), 43014 (17/100), 43022 (17/100). DLRadar also scores 43028, 43037, 43050, 44822, 44628, 44813, 43006, 43019 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.

The Knox County score is not a single measure but a composite: foreclosure activity, mortgage and tax-lien stress, and local lender headwind each feed it, which is why understanding the components matters as much as the headline number.