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

DLRadar tracks property distress across Lucas County, Ohio using verifiable public-record signals alone. DLRadar scores 30 ZIPs here, with a mean composite of 24/100. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 50/100 (moderate). Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 13 to 25 out of 100.

The county market is in a peak phase: home prices rose 3.0% over the past year, a 26/100-confidence read. On a market plateau, broad sweeps stop paying leaving the wins in individual deals.

At +3.0% YoY and 26/100 confidence, the discount lives in outliers and a county-wide sweep stays on the shelf. A mid-cycle 50/100 lender reading points to a blend the ZIP scores sort out.

By composite, 43434 (25/100), 43528 (25/100), 43537 (25/100), 43542 (25/100), 43547 (25/100), 43560 (25/100) top the county — tap any ZIP to go deeper. Other tracked Lucas County ZIPs include 43566, 43571, 43604, 43605, 43606, 43607, 43608, 43609, 43610, 43611.

Demographically, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Lucas County run home values averaging roughly $182,317, below the US, 70% of homes owner-occupied, a median age of 39.9, a median household income near $66,464 (below the US norm), 16.7% of households below the poverty line, 10.7% of units sitting vacant. These fundamentals frame the depth of motivated supply and the pace of resale.

Net of it all, 24/100 over 30 ZIPs means Lucas County is a screen-by-ZIP market where the ZIP scores point. Inside DLRadar, each Lucas County property carries owner and contact detail, APN, per-parcel scoring with lender exposure and resale velocity.

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

The way to work Lucas County, Ohio is top-down — start with the highest-scoring ZIPs (up to 25/100 here), then drill to the parcels driving those numbers, rather than blanketing Lucas County with undifferentiated outreach. The Lucas County scoring is reproducible from public sources alone, and DLRadar declines to estimate where the underlying record is incomplete.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Lucas County are 43434 (25/100), 43528 (25/100), 43537 (25/100), 43542 (25/100), 43547 (25/100), 43560 (25/100). DLRadar also scores 43566, 43571, 43604, 43605, 43606, 43607, 43608, 43609 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.

The Lucas 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.