Stark County, OH: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Stark County, OH, Ohio: 43 ZIP codes scored, Stark County, OH averaging 21/100 (low, Stark, OH), from 13 to 29. Stark County, OH is in its expansion phase (Stark, OH confidence 36/100): Stark, OH home prices up 6.4% (Stark, OH) over twelve months. Stark County, OH lender headwind: 53/100.
Highest-scoring Stark County, OH ZIPs: 44216 (29/100), 44685 (26/100), 44720 (24/100), 44614 (23/100), 44601 (22/100), 44613 (22/100). Also scored in Stark County, OH: 44626, 44630, 44632, 44640, 44641, 44646, 44647, 44652, 44662, 44669.
Across Stark County, OH's scored ZIPs: median home value $180,102, household income $70,531, 6.6% vacancy, 12.0% poverty, 72% owner-occupied, median age 42.0.
Stark County, OH insurance distress 26/100 (#1,842 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Stark, OH; 7 Stark, OH NFIP flood claims, $168K paid; Stark, OH construction distress 35/100.
17 banks with 88 branches lend in Stark County, OH; Stark, OH weighted bank stress 63/100, highest 82/100 in Stark, OH.
Stark County, OH unemployment 3.7% (Stark, OH -1.3 pts, six months); 661 new housing units permitted in Stark County, OH over twelve months, Stark, OH up 17% from 565; Stark, OH home prices +9.0% a year (Stark, OH) over three years.
167,949 housing units in Stark County, OH; 48,831 Stark, OH renter households; 40% of Stark, OH renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 18% (Stark, OH) half or more.
Stark County, OH ranks #2,443 nationally on the opportunity index (Stark, OH, among all ranked counties); Stark, OH scores 26.1/100 and Stark, OH sits #42 inside Ohio. Stark, OH is in the weak opportunity phase; Stark, OH's primary driver is bank institutional, Stark, OH second driver construction; Stark, OH moved up 301 places. 22 short-sale listings across Stark, OH; 85 days on market observed in Stark, OH; 7.3% vacancy over 43 Stark, OH ZIPs.
1.0% of Stark County, OH mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Stark, OH's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 2.6% (CFPB county sample). Stark, OH's ninety-day rate is down 0.1 points on twelve months earlier; the Stark, OH peak since 2008 was 3.7% in February 2010; Ohio overall reads 1.0%.
Stark County, OH has 12 watched banks; 12 Stark, OH banks sit in an elevated band. Stark, OH footprints: Huntington National Bank (17 branches, stress 63) in Stark, OH; Consumers National Bank (10 branches, stress 82) in Stark, OH; Keybank National Assn (10 branches, stress 65) in Stark, OH.
HUD lists 26 assisted multifamily properties in Stark County, OH with 1,879 units; 1,075 Stark, OH units are assisted, 13 Stark, OH properties under project-based Section 8.
11,994 of the 167,949 housing units in Stark, OH sit vacant. Stark County, OH permitted 136 multifamily units in twelve months; Stark, OH's one-to-four unit structures added 525 units in Stark County, OH.