ZIP 44144 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

On DLRadar's 0-100 distress scale, ZIP 44144 in Cuyahoga County, Ohio comes in at 21, a low composite-distress reading. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (98/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (88/100). Structural exposure scores 47 and live distress 3 on the 0–100 scale. What sets it apart are the readings on structural risk (47/100), institutional ownership (20/100), mortgage stress (9/100). institutional ownership (20/100) and mortgage stress (9/100) stay muted.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 3.8% over the trailing year, and 26% higher over three years (phase confidence 33/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

Around 30% of renters are cost-burdened. Around 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 21,266 residents call 44144 home, typically aged 43. A median home runs $149,900 here, or 2.3 times local income. At $59,775, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. The tenure split is 57% owner-occupied to 43% rented. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 27/100. Vacancy runs 3.9%. 14.2% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. The ZIP holds roughly 10,212 housing units.

On balance 44144 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. There is no property file for 44144 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable records.

Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 44144's 21/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Cuyahoga County, Ohio or any ZIP coast to coast. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 44144, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

The 21/100 figure for 44144 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. Practically, 44144 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.