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

Delaware County, Pennsylvania is scored end-to-end by DLRadar for property distress, drawn only from deterministic public records. Individual Delaware County ZIPs score between 20 and 28 on the 0–100 composite. 45 ZIP codes are tracked county-wide, averaging 28/100 distress. On bank and credit headwind, Delaware County scores 43/100.

Currently peak, Delaware County saw prices rise 4.2% year over year, at 28/100 phase confidence. This late in the run, the opportunity narrows as the ZIP scores below show.

At +4.2% YoY and 28/100 confidence, the wins are surgical well beyond the county average. A mid-cycle 43/100 lender reading points to both signal sets in play here.

The most-distressed ZIP codes in Delaware County are 19008 (28/100), 19013 (28/100), 19014 (28/100), 19015 (28/100), 19017 (28/100), 19018 (28/100), each with its own full DLRadar report. Other tracked Delaware County ZIPs include 19022, 19023, 19026, 19029, 19032, 19033, 19036, 19043, 19050, 19052.

Demographically, the Delaware County ZIPs on file report vacancy near 4.6%, poverty running near 8.7%, residents with a median age around 40.3, typical home values near $421,468, household income averaging about $107,909, above the national median, an owner-occupied share of 74%. Income, equity and tenure like these frame the depth of motivated supply and the pace of resale.

With a low 28/100 reading over 45 ZIPs, Delaware County rewards parcel-by-parcel work where the ZIP scores point. A DLRadar subscription opens every Delaware County parcel: owner, address and APN, a distress reading, the lender on title and exit timing.

No county is too small to score: Delaware County, Pennsylvania runs through the same foreclosure, tax, lien and bank-stress model as every major metro, so Delaware County's numbers mean exactly what they mean anywhere else in Pennsylvania.

Scores in Delaware County, Pennsylvania exist to concentrate effort: a handful of ZIPs hold most of the distress, and the rest seldom justify the acquisition cost. All Delaware County inputs are public record — recorder, court, FHFA and FDIC — and the score is rebuilt on ingest rather than modelled forward.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Delaware County are 19008 (28/100), 19013 (28/100), 19014 (28/100), 19015 (28/100), 19017 (28/100), 19018 (28/100). DLRadar also scores 19022, 19023, 19026, 19029, 19032, 19033, 19036, 19043 and more across the county. Each code carries its own composite built from that ZIP's foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien and lender signals, so two neighboring ZIPs can diverge sharply even inside one county.

Under Delaware 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.