ZIP 43217 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP 43217's composite property-distress score is 26/100 - DLRadar classes that as low for Franklin County, Ohio. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (98/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (71/100)). The latent-versus-live split is 59/100 structural and 2/100 already moving. Its heaviest discrete signals: construction/permit lag (64/100), structural risk (59/100), institutional ownership (16/100). institutional ownership (16/100) and mortgage stress (7/100) stay muted.

The market reads peak — home values rose 3.0% year on year, at 22/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

Around 14% of renters are cost-burdened. Population is roughly 2,021 with a median age of 27. 13.6% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. The typical home is worth about $56,900. Households earn a median $60,540 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. On demographic stress specifically, 43217 scores 36/100. The tenure split is 9% owner-occupied to 91% rented. The vacancy rate is 10.4%. About 10% have a four-year degree. The ZIP holds roughly 870 housing units.

Net-net, 43217 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.

No ZIP is too small to score: 43217 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 26/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Sparse data for 43217 shows as blanks, never estimates, and the score updates on every fresh public filing.

Behind 43217's composite sit distinct signals (foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender and structural), each scored on its own before rolling up, so two ZIPs with the same total can describe very different situations on the ground. For a buyer, 43217 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.