ZIP 44057 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Lake County, Ohio's ZIP 44057 registers 24/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. Structural risk reads 55/100 against active distress of 2/100. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (78/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (76/100). The most distinctive pressure shows up in construction/permit lag (67/100), structural risk (55/100), institutional ownership (17/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (17/100) and mortgage stress (7/100) register low.

The market reads expansion — home values rose 5.9% year on year, and 25% higher over three years, at 36/100 phase confidence. Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

Owners hold 84% of homes, renters 16%. Median household income is $70,212, near the U.S. median near $78,000. There are about 8,515 housing units across 44057. Educational attainment sits at 17% bachelor's-or-above. About 19,491 people live here, median age 44. Rent burden reaches 27% of tenant households. Vacancy runs 8.1%. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 24/100. Home values center near $180,300, an affordability ratio of 2.4× — accessible. 9.0% of residents fall below the poverty threshold.

Net-net, 44057 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.