ZIP 44240 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Composite property distress in 44240 (Portage County, Ohio) lands at 19/100 — low on DLRadar's public-record scoring. Structural risk reads 44/100 against active distress of 2/100. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (68/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (60/100). The sharpest non-environmental signals are construction/permit lag (47/100), structural risk (44/100), institutional ownership (14/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (14/100) and mortgage stress (7/100) register low.

The market reads expansion — home values rose 5.2% year on year, and 24% higher over three years, at 36/100 phase confidence. Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

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. Vacancy runs 17.1%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. 20.5% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Educational attainment sits at 44% bachelor's-or-above. About 37,889 people live here, median age 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. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.