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

For Wayne County, Ohio, DLRadar turns county and parcel public records into a single distress score per ZIP. There are 25 scored ZIPs in the county (mean composite 20/100). The county's ZIP scores run from 14 up to 29/100. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 62/100 (elevated).

The peak-phase county posted home values that rose 3.9% over twelve months (phase confidence 28/100). At this stage of the cycle, blanket buying underperforms with opportunity concentrated by ZIP.

Near the cycle top at +3.9% YoY (28/100 confidence), opportunity is parcel-specific so the headline market won't hand it over. Its 62/100 lender headwind is a buyer tailwind: short sales and foreclosures accelerate.

Top distress by ZIP runs 44203 (29/100), 44216 (29/100), 44614 (23/100), 44662 (22/100), 44230 (21/100), 44276 (21/100), listed with every scored ZIP below. Coverage extends to 44606, 44618, 44645, 44659, 44666, 44667, 44677, 44691, 44214, 44217 among others.

Profile-wise, Wayne County's tracked footprint report median home values around $222,692 (below the national figure), residents with a median age around 39.9, 6% of units sitting vacant, a 9.1% poverty rate, an owner-occupied share of 82%, incomes around $74,035. Income, equity and tenure like these set up how much distress reaches the market and how fast it moves.

With a low 20/100 reading over 25 ZIPs, Wayne County rewards parcel-by-parcel work where the ZIP scores point. Subscribers get each Wayne County parcel's owner, APN and address, a parcel-level score plus bank exposure and liquidity read.

No county is too small to score: Wayne County, Ohio runs through the same foreclosure, tax, lien and bank-stress model as every major metro, so Wayne County's numbers mean exactly what they mean anywhere else in Ohio.

The way to work Wayne County, Ohio is top-down — start with the highest-scoring ZIPs (up to 29/100 here), then drill to the parcels driving those numbers, rather than blanketing Wayne County with undifferentiated outreach. The Wayne 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.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Wayne County are 44203 (29/100), 44216 (29/100), 44614 (23/100), 44662 (22/100), 44230 (21/100), 44276 (21/100). DLRadar also scores 44606, 44618, 44645, 44659, 44666, 44667, 44677, 44691 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 Wayne 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.