ZIP 43740 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

DLRadar grades ZIP 43740 (Licking County, Ohio) at a low 23/100 for overall property distress. Latent structural risk is 52/100 while live distress already moving reads 2/100. Its heaviest discrete signals: construction/permit lag (56/100), structural risk (52/100), institutional ownership (17/100). On the quiet end sit institutional ownership (17/100) and mortgage stress (7/100). It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (77/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (75/100).

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 3.4% over the trailing year (phase confidence 25/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

264 residents call 43740 home, typically aged 38. Home values center near $128,800, an affordability ratio of 1.8× — accessible. The tenure split is 64% owner-occupied to 36% rented. Vacancy runs 8.9%. The poverty rate is 14.4%. At $67,500, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 23/100. There are about 115 housing units across 43740. Around 3% of renters are cost-burdened. About 10% have a four-year degree.

Overall, 43740 shows a mixed profile — neither uniformly stressed nor insulated — so opportunity is property-specific. While 43740 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.

No ZIP is too small to score: 43740 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 23/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 43740 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

43740's score blends several independent layers — foreclosure and mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, bank headwind and structural exposure — into one 0–100 number, so understanding the components matters as much as the headline for anyone screening the ZIP. For an operator, 43740 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.