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

Lancaster County, Pennsylvania is scored end-to-end by DLRadar for property distress, drawn only from deterministic public records. Bank/credit headwind for the county is 47 on a 0–100 scale, a moderate reading. 61 ZIP codes are tracked county-wide, averaging 28/100 distress.

The county market is in a expansion phase: home prices rose 5.8% over the past year (phase confidence 29/100). Even as prices climb, some owners fall behind anyway where the composite stays elevated.

Even appreciating at +5.8% YoY (29/100 confidence), well-bought parcels resell faster which speeds resale of distressed buys. Mid-range bank stress at 47/100 implies both signal sets in play here.

Top distress by ZIP runs 17501 (29/100), 17502 (29/100), 17504 (29/100), 17505 (29/100), 17506 (29/100), 17507 (29/100), listed with every scored ZIP below. Other tracked Lancaster County ZIPs include 17508, 17509, 17512, 17516, 17517, 17518, 17519, 17520, 17522, 17527.

Underneath the scores, Lancaster County's scored ZIPs come in at typical home values near $309,191, vacancy near 3.2%, residents with a median age around 40.6, a median household income near $85,358 (near the US norm), 74% of homes owner-occupied, poverty running near 8.1%. Read together, they signal which owners come under strain and how quickly stock clears.

Lancaster County, Pennsylvania's 28/100 average over 61 ZIPs says Lancaster County is a screen-by-ZIP market where the ZIP scores point. Inside DLRadar, each Lancaster County property carries owner, APN and address, per-parcel scoring with lender exposure and resale velocity.

Whether Lancaster County, Pennsylvania carries heavy distress or only a handful of flagged parcels, every score here is built the same deterministic way — from recorded foreclosures, tax delinquency, liens and lender stress — so Lancaster County can be compared directly against any county in the country.

Approach Lancaster County by rank rather than by average — the 28/100 county figure conceals the spread, since the returns live in the top-scoring ZIPs. These Lancaster County numbers come straight from public filings and refresh as new ones post; a missing source produces a blank field, never an estimate.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Lancaster County are 17501 (29/100), 17502 (29/100), 17504 (29/100), 17505 (29/100), 17506 (29/100), 17507 (29/100). DLRadar also scores 17508, 17509, 17512, 17516, 17517, 17518, 17519, 17520 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.

DLRadar's composite for Lancaster County blends several independent signals — foreclosure and pre-foreclosure filings, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, and the bank-stress headwind of the lenders operating locally — into one 0–100 score per ZIP, so a market can rank high on one axis and low on another.