Berks County, PA: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Berks County, PA, Pennsylvania: 64 ZIP codes scored, Berks County, PA averaging 21/100 (low, Berks, PA), from 19 to 29. Berks County, PA is in its peak phase (Berks, PA confidence 28/100): Berks, PA home prices up 4.4% (Berks, PA) over twelve months. Berks County, PA lender headwind: 55/100.
Highest-scoring Berks County, PA ZIPs: 17555 (29/100), 19501 (29/100), 17569 (28/100), 19520 (26/100), 18041 (25/100), 19464 (25/100). Also scored in Berks County, PA: 19525, 19543, 18031, 18070, 18092, 18062, 19504, 17026, 17067, 19512.
Across Berks County, PA's scored ZIPs: median home value $277,972, household income $84,899, 5.3% vacancy, 8.6% poverty, 77% owner-occupied, median age 42.9.
Berks County, PA insurance distress 31/100 (#1,579 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Berks, PA; 12 Berks, PA NFIP flood claims, $1.1M paid; Berks, PA construction distress 3/100.
19 banks with 90 branches lend in Berks County, PA; Berks, PA weighted bank stress 63/100, highest 85/100 in Berks, PA.
Berks County, PA unemployment 4.3% (Berks, PA -0.4 pts, six months); 611 new housing units permitted in Berks County, PA over twelve months, Berks, PA up 98% from 309; Berks, PA home prices +10.5% a year (Berks, PA) over three years.
171,580 housing units in Berks County, PA; 46,819 Berks, PA renter households; 47% of Berks, PA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 23% (Berks, PA) half or more.
Berks County, PA ranks #3,019 nationally on the opportunity index (Berks, PA, among all ranked counties); Berks, PA scores 23.0/100 and Berks, PA sits #65 inside Pennsylvania. Berks, PA is in the weak opportunity phase; Berks, PA's primary driver is bank institutional, Berks, PA second driver listings discount; Berks, PA moved up 111 places. 38 short-sale listings across Berks, PA; 73 days on market observed in Berks, PA; 5.4% vacancy over 64 Berks, PA ZIPs.
1.0% of Berks County, PA mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Berks, PA's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 2.4% (CFPB county sample). Berks, PA's ninety-day rate is up 0.2 points on twelve months earlier; the Berks, PA peak since 2008 was 3.7% in January 2013; Pennsylvania overall reads 1.0%.
Berks County, PA has 11 watched banks; 11 Berks, PA banks sit in an elevated band. Berks, PA footprints: Fleetwood Bank (7 branches, stress 85) in Berks, PA; Fulton Bank National Assn (7 branches, stress 61) in Berks, PA; First Nb Of Pennsylvania (4 branches, stress 55) in Berks, PA.
HUD lists 7 assisted multifamily properties in Berks County, PA with 411 units; 330 Berks, PA units are assisted, 4 Berks, PA properties under project-based Section 8.
8,344 of the 171,580 housing units in Berks, PA sit vacant. Berks County, PA permitted 289 multifamily units in twelve months; Berks, PA's one-to-four unit structures added 322 units in Berks County, PA.