ZIP 44109 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 44109 (Cuyahoga County, Ohio) at a low 23/100 for overall property distress. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (98/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (88/100)). Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (51/100), institutional ownership (20/100), construction/permit lag (16/100). On the quiet end sit construction/permit lag (16/100) and mortgage stress (9/100). Structural risk reads 51/100 against active distress of 3/100.

The expansion-phase market in 44109 posted values that rose 5.9% over the year, and 25% higher over three years, at 36/100 phase confidence. Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.

There are about 19,976 housing units across 44109. Households earn a median $43,130 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Population is roughly 38,098 with a median age of 36. Rent burden reaches 42% of tenant households. The tenure split is 48% owner-occupied to 52% rented. On demographic stress specifically, 44109 scores 34/100. A median home runs $122,200 here, or 2.6 times local income. Roughly 23.3% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. Vacancy runs 16.0%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. About 17% have a four-year degree.

On the whole, 44109 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.