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

DLRadar tracks property distress across Centre County, Pennsylvania using verifiable public-record signals alone. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 34/100 (contained). 35 ZIP codes are tracked county-wide, averaging 16/100 distress. ZIP-level distress ranges from 28/100 at the top down to 14/100.

The peak-phase county posted home values that rose 3.1% over twelve months, a 17/100-confidence read. With values leveling off, distress turns selective as the ZIP scores below show.

At +3.1% YoY and 17/100 confidence, opportunity is parcel-specific well beyond the county average. A steady 34/100 bank reading favors tax, code and ownership-change cases over REO.

Top distress by ZIP runs 16666 (28/100), 16860 (25/100), 16686 (21/100), 16822 (19/100), 16845 (18/100), 16677 (15/100), listed with every scored ZIP below. Other tracked Centre County ZIPs include 16801, 16802, 16803, 16820, 16823, 16826, 16827, 16828, 16829, 16832.

On the housing-and-income side, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Centre County show incomes around $72,034, 10.8% of households below the poverty line, vacancy near 14.4%, median home values around $242,997 (below the national figure), residents with a median age around 45.1, 77% of homes owner-occupied. Income, equity and tenure like these drive both the distress on offer and the exit velocity.

Centre County, Pennsylvania's 16/100 average over 35 ZIPs says Centre County is a screen-by-ZIP market for a disciplined buyer. Unlock Centre County to see every parcel's owner, APN and address, a distress score and bank-exposure read.

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

For an acquisition buyer, the practical use of Centre 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. Every figure traces to a public federal or county source — recorder and court records for foreclosure and liens, FHFA for the price cycle, FDIC for lender stress — and DLRadar leaves a signal blank rather than estimating where Centre County data is thin.

The ZIP breakdown for Centre County leads with 16666 (28/100), 16860 (25/100), 16686 (21/100), 16822 (19/100), 16845 (18/100), 16677 (15/100). DLRadar also scores 16801, 16802, 16803, 16820, 16823, 16826, 16827, 16828 and more across the county. Because each ZIP is graded on its own foreclosure, tax and lender record, the county's distress is best read code by code rather than as a single number.

Under Centre 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.