Van Wert County, OH: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Van Wert County, OH, Ohio: 14 ZIP codes scored, Van Wert County, OH averaging 7/100 (minimal, Van Wert, OH), from 4 to 14. Van Wert County, OH is in its peak phase (Van Wert, OH confidence 28/100): Van Wert, OH home prices up 3.9% (Van Wert, OH) over twelve months. Van Wert County, OH lender headwind: 66/100.
Highest-scoring Van Wert County, OH ZIPs: 45844 (14/100), 45887 (14/100), 45833 (12/100), 45882 (11/100), 45898 (8/100), 45849 (6/100). Also scored in Van Wert County, OH: 45886, 45894, 45832, 45838, 45863, 45874, 45891, 45899.
Across Van Wert County, OH's scored ZIPs: median home value $145,486, household income $67,867, 9.5% vacancy, 7.6% poverty, 84% owner-occupied, median age 40.6.
Van Wert County, OH insurance distress 0/100 (#2,987 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Van Wert, OH; Van Wert, OH construction distress 9/100.
8 banks with 9 branches lend in Van Wert County, OH; Van Wert, OH weighted bank stress 66/100, highest 95/100 in Van Wert, OH.
Van Wert County, OH unemployment 2.9% (Van Wert, OH -1.2 pts, six months); 53 new housing units permitted in Van Wert County, OH over twelve months, Van Wert, OH up 47% from 36; Van Wert, OH home prices +9.0% a year (Van Wert, OH) over three years.
12,573 housing units in Van Wert County, OH; 2,259 Van Wert, OH renter households; 33% of Van Wert, OH renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 16% (Van Wert, OH) half or more.
Van Wert County, OH ranks #3,126 nationally on the opportunity index (Van Wert, OH, among all ranked counties); Van Wert, OH scores 21.8/100 and Van Wert, OH sits #84 inside Ohio. Van Wert, OH is in the weak opportunity phase; Van Wert, OH's primary driver is bank institutional, Van Wert, OH second driver vacancy; Van Wert, OH moved up 32 places. 103 days on market observed in Van Wert, OH; 7.0% vacancy over 14 Van Wert, OH ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Van Wert County, OH. The non-metro area reading for Van Wert, OH: 1.4% ninety-plus days late; Van Wert, OH's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 3.4% (Van Wert, OH, December 2025 data); Ohio overall 1.0%.
Van Wert County, OH has 5 watched banks; 5 Van Wert, OH banks sit in an elevated band. Van Wert, OH footprints: First Fs&La Of Van Wert (2 branches, stress 70) in Van Wert, OH; Greenway Bank (1 branch, stress 95) in Van Wert, OH; U S Bank National Assn (1 branch, stress 67) in Van Wert, OH.
HUD lists 1 assisted multifamily property in Van Wert County, OH with 60 units; 60 Van Wert, OH units are assisted, 1 Van Wert, OH properties under project-based Section 8.
1,024 of the 12,573 housing units in Van Wert, OH sit vacant. Van Wert County, OH permitted 6 multifamily units in twelve months; Van Wert, OH's one-to-four unit structures added 47 units in Van Wert County, OH.