ZIP 44240 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP 44240's composite property-distress score is 20/100 - DLRadar classes that as low for Portage County, Ohio. Structural risk reads 45/100 against active distress of 2/100. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (68/100). Its standout signals are construction/permit lag (52/100), structural risk (45/100), institutional ownership (14/100). institutional ownership (14/100) and mortgage stress (7/100) stay muted.

The peak-phase market in 44240 posted values that rose 3.2% over the year, and 24% higher over three years, at 20/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

Home values center near $226,500, an affordability ratio of 3.8× — accessible. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 36/100. Owners hold 52% of homes, renters 48%. Rent burden reaches 55% of tenant households. There are about 19,789 housing units across 44240. The vacancy rate is 17.1% — elevated. 20.5% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Educational attainment sits at 44% bachelor's-or-above. Population is roughly 37,889 with a median age of 34. Median household income is $57,415, below the U.S. median near $78,000.

Net-net, 44240 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. No parcel file is published for 44240 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

No ZIP is too small to score: 44240 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 20/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 44240 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

The 20/100 for 44240 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. Practically, 44240 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.