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

For Ross County, Ohio, DLRadar turns county and parcel public records into a single distress score per ZIP. County-level credit and bank headwind reads 63/100 — elevated, a sign of lender stress locally. Individual Ross County ZIPs score between 5 and 18 on the 0–100 composite. DLRadar scores 16 ZIPs here, with a mean composite of 15/100.

Currently peak, Ross County saw prices rise 3.9% year over year, a 28/100-confidence read. On a market plateau, blanket buying underperforms so screen ZIP by ZIP.

Near the cycle top at +3.9% YoY (28/100 confidence), the wins are surgical so the headline market won't hand it over. Bank stress at 63/100 signals what's coming: expect more lender-driven inventory soon.

Top distress by ZIP runs 43101 (18/100), 43115 (18/100), 43164 (18/100), 45617 (18/100), 45628 (18/100), 45644 (18/100), listed with every scored ZIP below. Further scored ZIPs: 45673, 45681, 45601, 45612, 43135, 45690, 45123, 45647, 45672, 43160.

By the numbers, Ross County's tracked footprint show 13.8% of households below the poverty line, an owner-occupied share of 72%, incomes around $58,182, a median age of 41.5, vacancy near 8%, home values averaging roughly $172,836, below the US. Read together, they frame the supply of motivated sellers and the speed of resale.

With a low 15/100 reading over 16 ZIPs, Ross County is a screen-by-ZIP market — work it parcel by parcel. A DLRadar subscription opens every Ross County parcel: owner, mailing address, APN, a distress score and bank-exposure read.

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

Ross County, Ohio is best worked from the top of the score down; blanket outreach across Ross County dilutes effort that the ZIP-level numbers would have focused. All of it is deterministic and auditable: Ross County's numbers come from county recorders, the courts, FHFA and FDIC, with nothing interpolated or guessed when a source is sparse.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Ross County are 43101 (18/100), 43115 (18/100), 43164 (18/100), 45617 (18/100), 45628 (18/100), 45644 (18/100). DLRadar also scores 45673, 45681, 45601, 45612, 43135, 45690, 45123, 45647 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.

Under Ross 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.