ZIP 44118 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Cuyahoga County, Ohio · Distress market
ZIP 44118's composite property-distress score is 21/100 - DLRadar classes that as low for Cuyahoga County, Ohio. The latent-versus-live split is 46/100 structural and 3/100 already moving. The pressure is most legible in structural risk (46/100), institutional ownership (20/100), mortgage stress (9/100). institutional ownership (20/100) and mortgage stress (9/100) stay muted. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (98/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (87/100).
The peak-phase market in 44118 posted values that rose 3.8% over the year, and 22% higher over three years (phase confidence 33/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.
Population is roughly 40,389 with a median age of 34. The tenure split is 61% owner-occupied to 39% rented. Home values center near $224,500, an affordability ratio of 2.7× — accessible. Rent burden reaches 44% of tenant households. Roughly 15.7% live below the poverty line. There are about 17,714 housing units across 44118. The vacancy rate is 8.8%. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 27/100. Around 61% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Households earn a median $76,328 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure.
On balance 44118 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. Parcel-level detail for 44118 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced to public records.
Big metro or rural, 44118 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 21/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Cuyahoga County, Ohio and the nation. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 44118 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.
The 21/100 figure for 44118 is a composite, not one metric: it rolls up foreclosure and pre-foreclosure activity, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, local lender headwind, and structural risk into a single reading, which is why a ZIP can look calm on price yet score high on distress. For an operator, 44118 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.
What is driving ZIP 44118’s distress
Unpaid tax, corporate ownership share, insurance cost pressure, NFIP flood risk, construction slowdown, price gaps and auction turnover — plus the 0 individual distressed properties — each with owner, address, APN, its own distress score and an exit read — are in the full report.
44118 at a glance
The live 44118 panel — distress score, market phase, housing and bank pressure — as attached to every individual property.
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