Van Wert County, OH: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

DLRadar tracks property distress across Van Wert County, Ohio using verifiable public-record signals alone. Lender pressure in Van Wert County registers 66/100 — a elevated bank-stress headwind. ZIP-level distress ranges from 14/100 at the top down to 5/100. 14 ZIP codes are tracked county-wide, averaging 8/100 distress.

In its peak phase, Van Wert County home prices rose 3.9% across the last year (phase confidence 28/100). On a market plateau, the average masks the outliers so screen ZIP by ZIP.

Van Wert County's topped-out +3.9% YoY (28/100 confidence) means the wins are surgical so the headline market won't hand it over. Bank stress at 66/100 is a buyer tailwind: short sales and foreclosures accelerate.

The most-distressed ZIP codes in Van Wert County are 45844 (14/100), 45887 (14/100), 45833 (13/100), 45882 (12/100), 45898 (8/100), 45849 (6/100), each with its own full DLRadar report. Also scored across the county: 45832, 45838, 45863, 45874, 45886, 45891, 45894, 45899.

By the numbers, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Van Wert County show incomes around $67,867, poverty running near 7.6%, typical home values near $145,486, an owner-occupied share of 84%, 9.5% of units sitting vacant, residents with a median age around 40.6. These fundamentals frame the depth of motivated supply and the pace of resale.

Van Wert County, Ohio's 8/100 average over 14 ZIPs says the edge is selective acquisition rather than a blanket buy. A DLRadar subscription opens every Van Wert County parcel: owner, address and APN, a parcel-level score plus bank exposure and liquidity read.

Whether Van Wert County, Ohio carries heavy distress or only a handful of flagged parcels, every score here is built the same deterministic way — from recorded foreclosures, tax delinquency, liens and lender stress — so Van Wert County can be compared directly against any county in the country.

Read Van Wert County, Ohio as a heat map for effort — the county's minimal composite of 8/100 hides wide ZIP-level variation, and the return comes from chasing the hot ZIPs, not the average. The Van Wert County read is rebuilt from public records as they post — no modeling fills the gaps — so what you see is what the documents support, refreshed on each ingest.

The ZIP breakdown for Van Wert County leads with 45844 (14/100), 45887 (14/100), 45833 (13/100), 45882 (12/100), 45898 (8/100), 45849 (6/100). DLRadar also scores 45832, 45838, 45863, 45874, 45886, 45891, 45894, 45899 across the county. Because each ZIP is graded on its own foreclosure, tax and lender record, the county's distress is best read code by code rather than as a single number.

Under Van Wert 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.