ZIP 43209 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

DLRadar grades ZIP 43209 (Franklin County, Ohio) at a moderate 32/100 for overall property distress. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (98/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (82/100). Its standout signals are structural risk (71/100), construction/permit lag (61/100), institutional ownership (46/100). mortgage stress (7/100) stay muted. Structurally it carries 71/100, against 2/100 of stress already in motion.

The peak-phase market in 43209 posted values that rose 3.0% over the year, and 17% higher over three years (phase confidence 22/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

The typical home is worth about $392,500 (4.2× income). About 57% have a four-year degree. The vacancy rate is 7.5%. At $88,155, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. Population is roughly 28,431 with a median age of 39. The poverty rate is 9.0%. There are about 12,623 housing units across 43209. Around 37% of renters are cost-burdened. 56% of housing is owner-occupied. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 30/100.

Net-net, 43209 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. 43209 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

No ZIP is too small to score: 43209 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 32/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 43209, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

The 32/100 figure for 43209 is a composite, not one metric: it rolls up foreclosure and pre-foreclosure activity, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, local lender headwind, and structural risk into a single reading, which is why a ZIP can look calm on price yet score high on distress. For an operator, 43209 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.