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

Lake County, Ohio is mapped parcel-to-ZIP by DLRadar's public-record distress engine. Individual Lake County ZIPs score between 16 and 24 on the 0–100 composite. County-level credit and bank headwind reads 64/100 — elevated, a sign of lender stress locally. DLRadar scores 11 ZIPs here, with a mean composite of 22/100.

In its peak phase, Lake County home prices rose 3.8% across the last year, at 33/100 phase confidence. This late in the run, the opportunity narrows as the ZIP scores below show.

At +3.8% YoY and 33/100 confidence, the discount lives in outliers well beyond the county average. Its 64/100 lender headwind favors patient capital: banks under pressure move REO faster.

The sharpest Lake County readings come from 44045 (24/100), 44077 (24/100), 44081 (24/100), 44092 (24/100), 44095 (24/100), 44057 (23/100) — open any for the parcel detail. The breakdown continues through 44060, 44094, 44041, 44086, 44024 and more.

Underneath the scores, Lake County's tracked footprint report residents with a median age around 45.4, 79% of homes owner-occupied, vacancy near 6.5%, a median household income near $79,721 (near the US norm), median home values around $222,291 (below the national figure), a 8% poverty rate. These fundamentals drive who sells under pressure and how fast a deal moves.

Lake County, Ohio's 22/100 average over 11 ZIPs says the edge is selective acquisition and not a county-wide play. Inside DLRadar, each Lake County property carries owner, mailing address, APN, a per-parcel score, lender exposure and exit read.

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

The point of scoring Lake County, Ohio is to narrow it — the high-composite ZIPs carry the distress, and everything below them rarely repays the outreach cost. The Lake County figures are auditable line by line — county recorders and courts, FHFA price data, FDIC bank filings — with gaps left visible rather than filled by estimate.

Drilling in, Lake County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 44045 (24/100), 44077 (24/100), 44081 (24/100), 44092 (24/100), 44095 (24/100), 44057 (23/100). DLRadar also scores 44060, 44094, 44041, 44086, 44024 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.

Under Lake 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.