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

Every ZIP in Carbon County, Pennsylvania carries a DLRadar distress score assembled from foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender records. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 100/100 (elevated). Individual Carbon County ZIPs score between 18 and 25 on the 0–100 composite. 21 ZIP codes are tracked county-wide, averaging 19/100 distress.

Currently peak, Carbon County saw prices rise 4.7% year over year, at 30/100 phase confidence. On a market plateau, blanket buying underperforms with opportunity concentrated by ZIP.

At +4.7% YoY and 30/100 confidence, opportunity is parcel-specific so the headline market won't hand it over. An elevated 100/100 reading signals what's coming: short sales and foreclosures accelerate.

Distress concentrates in ZIP 18201 (25/100), ZIP 18058 (23/100), ZIP 18661 (23/100), ZIP 18211 (20/100), ZIP 18216 (20/100), ZIP 18237 (20/100) — drill into any for the parcel-level read. Also scored across the county: 18071, 18210, 18240, 18250, 18255, 18012, 18030, 18212, 18229, 18230.

Underneath the scores, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Carbon County run household income averaging about $60,817, below the national median, a median age of 47.5, 18.4% of units sitting vacant, home values averaging roughly $193,974, below the US, a 13.2% poverty rate, 80% of homes owner-occupied. Read together, they drive the supply of motivated sellers and the speed of resale.

At 19/100 composite over 21 ZIPs, the opportunity hides below the average where the ZIP scores point. Subscribers get each Carbon County parcel's owner and contact detail, APN, a score, the bank behind the note and how fast it should sell.

Because Carbon County, Pennsylvania is scored on the identical public-record model used nationwide, even a quiet county is measured on one scale — letting you weigh Carbon County against neighboring markets or the rest of Pennsylvania on equal footing.

For anyone buying in Carbon County, the scores answer one question first — which ZIPs deserve the marketing budget, with the top reading 25/100. Nothing in the Carbon 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, Carbon County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 18201 (25/100), 18058 (23/100), 18661 (23/100), 18211 (20/100), 18216 (20/100), 18237 (20/100). DLRadar also scores 18071, 18210, 18240, 18250, 18255, 18012, 18030, 18212 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.

The Carbon County score is not a single measure but a composite: foreclosure activity, mortgage and tax-lien stress, and local lender headwind each feed it, which is why understanding the components matters as much as the headline number.