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

Portage County, OH, Ohio: 24 ZIP codes scored, Portage County, OH averaging 21/100 (low, Portage, OH), from 18 to 29. Portage County, OH is in its peak phase (Portage, OH confidence 20/100): Portage, OH home prices up 3.2% (Portage, OH) over twelve months. Portage County, OH lender headwind: 61/100.

Highest-scoring Portage County, OH ZIPs: 44224 (29/100), 44236 (29/100), 44278 (29/100), 44312 (29/100), 44429 (23/100), 44449 (22/100). Also scored in Portage County, OH: 44632, 44202, 44260, 44412, 44444, 44201, 44231, 44240, 44241, 44243.

Across Portage County, OH's scored ZIPs: median home value $228,252, household income $85,348, 9.1% vacancy, 10.5% poverty, 79% owner-occupied, median age 41.7.

Portage County, OH insurance distress 19/100 (#2,362 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Portage, OH; 1 Portage, OH NFIP flood claims, $9K paid; Portage, OH construction distress 50/100.

10 banks with 32 branches lend in Portage County, OH; Portage, OH weighted bank stress 66/100, highest 95/100 in Portage, OH.

Portage County, OH unemployment 3.4% (Portage, OH -1.4 pts, six months); 240 new housing units permitted in Portage County, OH over twelve months, Portage, OH up 1% from 238; Portage, OH home prices +9.6% a year (Portage, OH) over three years.

71,325 housing units in Portage County, OH; 19,276 Portage, OH renter households; 52% of Portage, OH renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 28% (Portage, OH) half or more.

Portage County, OH ranks #2,517 nationally on the opportunity index (Portage, OH, among all ranked counties); Portage, OH scores 25.8/100 and Portage, OH sits #48 inside Ohio. Portage, OH is in the weak opportunity phase; Portage, OH's primary driver is bank institutional, Portage, OH second driver construction; Portage, OH moved up 157 places. 27 short-sale listings across Portage, OH; 80 days on market observed in Portage, OH; 7.9% vacancy over 24 Portage, OH ZIPs.

0.8% of Portage County, OH mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Portage, OH's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 2.0% (CFPB county sample). Portage, OH's ninety-day rate is up 0.6 points on twelve months earlier; the Portage, OH peak since 2008 was 3.6% in February 2010; Ohio overall reads 1.0%.

Portage County, OH has 7 watched banks; 7 Portage, OH banks sit in an elevated band. Portage, OH footprints: Jpmorgan Chase Bank Na (5 branches, stress 65) in Portage, OH; Huntington National Bank (5 branches, stress 63) in Portage, OH; Hometown Bank (4 branches, stress 95) in Portage, OH.

HUD lists 12 assisted multifamily properties in Portage County, OH with 854 units; 415 Portage, OH units are assisted, 8 Portage, OH properties under project-based Section 8.

6,076 of the 71,325 housing units in Portage, OH sit vacant. Portage County, OH permitted 5 multifamily units in twelve months; Portage, OH's one-to-four unit structures added 235 units in Portage County, OH.