ZIP 43972 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP 43972's composite property-distress score is 17/100 - DLRadar classes that as low for Belmont County, Ohio. Environmental exposure also runs high (flood (NFIP) exposure (81/100), climate & FEMA risk (73/100)). Latent structural risk is 38/100 while live distress already moving reads 3/100. Its heaviest discrete signals: structural risk (38/100), institutional ownership (18/100), mortgage stress (9/100). On the quiet end sit institutional ownership (18/100) and mortgage stress (9/100).

The contraction-phase market in 43972 posted values that held roughly flat over the year, at 42/100 phase confidence. Falling values surface more motivated sellers and below-market exits.

82% of housing is owner-occupied. Vacancy runs 21.1%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. 104 residents call 43972 home, typically aged 88. Around 5% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. A median home runs $94,000 here, or 3.3 times local income. On demographic stress specifically, 43972 scores 42/100. Roughly 21.2% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. The ZIP holds roughly 113 housing units. Households earn a median $29,009 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure.

Net-net, 43972 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. There is no property file for 43972 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable records.

Whether 43972 runs hot or quiet, its 17/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 43972 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Belmont County, Ohio or nationwide. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 43972, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

Behind 43972'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. Practically, 43972 works as a screen — verify the reading, drill to the specific parcels driving it, and carry the deal through capital and closing on the platform.