ZIP 43821 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Composite property distress in 43821 (Muskingum County, Ohio) lands at 21/100 — low on DLRadar's public-record scoring. On the structural side it scores 48/100, with 2/100 of stress already active. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (63/100). What sets it apart are the readings on construction/permit lag (70/100), structural risk (48/100), institutional ownership (14/100). On the quiet end sit institutional ownership (14/100) and mortgage stress (7/100).

The peak-phase market in 43821 posted values that rose 3.9% over the year, and 16% higher over three years (phase confidence 28/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

Population is roughly 4,282 with a median age of 44. A median home runs $179,400 here, or 2.4 times local income. Owners hold 77% of homes, renters 23%. Rent burden reaches 36% of tenant households. Vacancy runs 13.6%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. On demographic stress specifically, 43821 scores 27/100. 7.1% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Median household income is $70,781, near the U.S. median near $78,000. There are about 1,805 housing units across 43821. About 18% have a four-year degree.

Net-net, 43821 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. While 43821 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.

Whether 43821 runs hot or quiet, its 21/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 43821 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Muskingum County, Ohio or nationwide. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 43821, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

43821'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, 43821 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.