Columbia County, PA: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Columbia County, PA, Pennsylvania: 20 ZIP codes scored, Columbia County, PA averaging 19/100 (low, Columbia, PA), from 15 to 29. Columbia County, PA is in its peak phase (Columbia, PA confidence 28/100): Columbia, PA home prices up 4.2% (Columbia, PA) over twelve months. Columbia County, PA lender headwind: 52/100.
Highest-scoring Columbia County, PA ZIPs: 17774 (29/100), 17756 (27/100), 18655 (24/100), 18635 (22/100), 18603 (21/100), 17878 (20/100). Also scored in Columbia County, PA: 17921, 17985, 17814, 17821, 17824, 17815, 17846, 17858, 17859, 17888.
Across Columbia County, PA's scored ZIPs: median home value $197,810, household income $69,106, 12.7% vacancy, 9.9% poverty, 83% owner-occupied, median age 47.9.
Columbia County, PA insurance distress 25/100 (#1,962 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Columbia, PA; 4 Columbia, PA NFIP flood claims, $82K paid; Columbia, PA construction distress 15/100.
6 banks with 22 branches lend in Columbia County, PA; Columbia, PA weighted bank stress 61/100, highest 98/100 in Columbia, PA.
Columbia County, PA unemployment 4.4% (Columbia, PA -1.3 pts, six months); 108 new housing units permitted in Columbia County, PA over twelve months, Columbia, PA up 44% from 75; Columbia, PA home prices +7.9% a year (Columbia, PA) over three years.
29,824 housing units in Columbia County, PA; 7,652 Columbia, PA renter households; 38% of Columbia, PA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 18% (Columbia, PA) half or more.
Columbia County, PA ranks #2,838 nationally on the opportunity index (Columbia, PA, among all ranked counties); Columbia, PA scores 24.2/100 and Columbia, PA sits #61 inside Pennsylvania. Columbia, PA is in the weak opportunity phase; Columbia, PA's primary driver is vacancy, Columbia, PA second driver bank institutional; Columbia, PA moved down 445 places. 2 short-sale listings across Columbia, PA; 19 days on market observed in Columbia, PA; 12.9% vacancy over 20 Columbia, PA ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Columbia County, PA. The non-metro area reading for Columbia, PA: 1.6% ninety-plus days late; Columbia, PA's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 2.1% (Columbia, PA, December 2025 data); Pennsylvania overall 1.0%.
Columbia County, PA has 4 watched banks; 4 Columbia, PA banks sit in an elevated band. Columbia, PA footprints: Journey Bank (11 branches, stress 51) in Columbia, PA; First Keystone Cmty Bank (5 branches, stress 79) in Columbia, PA; Unb Bank (1 branch, stress 98) in Columbia, PA.
3,474 of the 29,824 housing units in Columbia, PA sit vacant. Columbia County, PA permitted 8 multifamily units in twelve months; Columbia, PA's one-to-four unit structures added 100 units in Columbia County, PA.