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

Dauphin County, PA, Pennsylvania: 31 ZIP codes scored, Dauphin County, PA averaging 21/100 (low, Dauphin, PA), from 18 to 28. Dauphin County, PA is in its peak phase (Dauphin, PA confidence 31/100): Dauphin, PA home prices up 4.3% (Dauphin, PA) over twelve months. Dauphin County, PA lender headwind: 34/100.

Highest-scoring Dauphin County, PA ZIPs: 17022 (28/100), 17028 (22/100), 17078 (22/100), 17005 (21/100), 17018 (21/100), 17023 (21/100). Also scored in Dauphin County, PA: 17030, 17032, 17033, 17034, 17036, 17048, 17057, 17061, 17080, 17097.

Across Dauphin County, PA's scored ZIPs: median home value $207,655, household income $76,816, 7.3% vacancy, 12.4% poverty, 65% owner-occupied, median age 41.2.

Dauphin County, PA insurance distress 21/100 (#2,076 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Dauphin, PA; 6 Dauphin, PA NFIP flood claims, $14K paid; Dauphin, PA construction distress 30/100.

19 banks with 66 branches lend in Dauphin County, PA; Dauphin, PA weighted bank stress 59/100, highest 92/100 in Dauphin, PA.

Dauphin County, PA unemployment 4.1% (Dauphin, PA -0.4 pts, six months); 496 new housing units permitted in Dauphin County, PA over twelve months, Dauphin, PA up 22% from 407; Dauphin, PA home prices +9.9% a year (Dauphin, PA) over three years.

127,828 housing units in Dauphin County, PA; 43,925 Dauphin, PA renter households; 41% of Dauphin, PA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 20% (Dauphin, PA) half or more.

Dauphin County, PA ranks #2,568 nationally on the opportunity index (Dauphin, PA, among all ranked counties); Dauphin, PA scores 25.6/100 and Dauphin, PA sits #51 inside Pennsylvania. Dauphin, PA is in the weak opportunity phase; Dauphin, PA's primary driver is bank institutional, Dauphin, PA second driver listings discount; Dauphin, PA moved up 452 places. 80 short-sale listings across Dauphin, PA; 78 days on market observed in Dauphin, PA; 5.7% vacancy over 31 Dauphin, PA ZIPs.

0.9% of Dauphin County, PA mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Dauphin, PA's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 2.6% (CFPB county sample). Dauphin, PA's ninety-day rate is up 0.4 points on twelve months earlier; the Dauphin, PA peak since 2008 was 3.7% in February 2011; Pennsylvania overall reads 1.0%.

Dauphin County, PA has 10 watched banks; 10 Dauphin, PA banks sit in an elevated band. Dauphin, PA footprints: Mid Penn Bank (11 branches, stress 57) in Dauphin, PA; First Nb Of Pennsylvania (6 branches, stress 55) in Dauphin, PA; Fulton Bank National Assn (5 branches, stress 61) in Dauphin, PA.

HUD lists 17 assisted multifamily properties in Dauphin County, PA with 1,888 units; 664 Dauphin, PA units are assisted, 6 Dauphin, PA properties under project-based Section 8.

6,470 of the 127,828 housing units in Dauphin, PA sit vacant. Dauphin County, PA permitted 289 multifamily units in twelve months; Dauphin, PA's one-to-four unit structures added 207 units in Dauphin County, PA.