Adams County, PA: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

DLRadar tracks property distress across Adams County, Pennsylvania using verifiable public-record signals alone. The county spans 18 scored ZIP codes, averaging 22/100 composite distress. On bank and credit headwind, Adams County scores 33/100. The county's ZIP scores run from 21 up to 27/100.

The neutral-phase county posted home values that rose 3.8% over twelve months, a 24/100-confidence read. This late in the run, the average masks the outliers as the ZIP scores below show.

At +3.8% YoY and 24/100 confidence, the discount lives in outliers well beyond the county average. A steady 33/100 bank reading favors tax, code and ownership-change cases over REO.

Highest scores land in 17019 (27/100), 17331 (25/100), 17301 (24/100), 17316 (24/100), 17222 (22/100), 17324 (22/100); each opens to a full parcel breakdown. Coverage extends to 17303, 17304, 17306, 17307, 17320, 17325, 17340, 17343, 17344, 17350 among others.

Underneath the scores, the Adams County ZIPs on file come in at typical home values near $256,194, incomes around $80,825, 80% owner-occupancy, a median age of 43.5, 10.7% of units sitting vacant, 8.1% of households below the poverty line. These fundamentals drive the volume of pressured sellers and the exit liquidity behind them.

At 22/100 composite over 18 ZIPs, Adams County is a screen-by-ZIP market where the ZIP scores point. Inside DLRadar, each Adams County property carries owner and contact detail, APN, a per-parcel score, lender exposure and exit read.

The distress read for Adams County, Pennsylvania is refreshed as new public records post and uses the same methodology coast to coast, so Adams County stays directly comparable to any other market you track.

For an acquisition buyer, the practical use of Adams County, Pennsylvania's scores is triage: the ZIPs and parcels carrying the highest composite are where motivated sellers and below-market exits concentrate, while lower-scored areas rarely justify the marketing spend. Nothing in the Adams County read is modelled: recorder and court filings drive foreclosure and lien signals, FHFA sets the price cycle, FDIC the lender stress, and a thin source stays blank.

Drilling in, Adams County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 17019 (27/100), 17331 (25/100), 17301 (24/100), 17316 (24/100), 17222 (22/100), 17324 (22/100). DLRadar also scores 17303, 17304, 17306, 17307, 17320, 17325, 17340, 17343 and more across the county. Every one of these is scored independently — a ZIP's composite reflects its own recorded distress, which is why the county average alone hides where the real pressure sits.

Under Adams County's headline composite sit distinct layers — recorded foreclosures, tax and lien delinquency, mortgage stress and bank headwind — each scored separately before they roll up, so the same total can describe very different markets.