Lancaster County, PA: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Lancaster County, PA, Pennsylvania: 61 ZIP codes scored, Lancaster County, PA averaging 28/100 (low, Lancaster, PA), from 19 to 29. Lancaster County, PA is in its expansion phase (Lancaster, PA confidence 29/100): Lancaster, PA home prices up 5.8% (Lancaster, PA) over twelve months. Lancaster County, PA lender headwind: 47/100.
Highest-scoring Lancaster County, PA ZIPs: 17501 (29/100), 17502 (29/100), 17504 (29/100), 17505 (29/100), 17506 (29/100), 17507 (29/100). Also scored in Lancaster County, PA: 17508, 17509, 17512, 17516, 17517, 17518, 17519, 17520, 17522, 17527.
Across Lancaster County, PA's scored ZIPs: median home value $309,191, household income $85,358, 3.2% vacancy, 8.1% poverty, 74% owner-occupied, median age 40.6.
Lancaster County, PA insurance distress 30/100 (#1,606 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Lancaster, PA; 43 Lancaster, PA NFIP flood claims, $1.2M paid; Lancaster, PA construction distress 82/100.
25 banks with 145 branches lend in Lancaster County, PA; Lancaster, PA weighted bank stress 62/100, highest 73/100 in Lancaster, PA.
Lancaster County, PA unemployment 3.2% (Lancaster, PA -0.2 pts, six months); 1,144 new housing units permitted in Lancaster County, PA over twelve months, Lancaster, PA down 33% from 1,710; Lancaster, PA home prices +10.8% a year (Lancaster, PA) over three years.
219,224 housing units in Lancaster County, PA; 63,277 Lancaster, PA renter households; 44% of Lancaster, PA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 22% (Lancaster, PA) half or more.
Lancaster County, PA ranks #2,749 nationally on the opportunity index (Lancaster, PA, among all ranked counties); Lancaster, PA scores 24.7/100 and Lancaster, PA sits #59 inside Pennsylvania. Lancaster, PA is in the weak opportunity phase; Lancaster, PA's primary driver is construction, Lancaster, PA second driver bank institutional; Lancaster, PA moved up 66 places. 69 short-sale listings across Lancaster, PA; 47 days on market observed in Lancaster, PA; 3.4% vacancy over 61 Lancaster, PA ZIPs.
0.8% of Lancaster County, PA mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Lancaster, PA's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 1.5% (CFPB county sample). Lancaster, PA's ninety-day rate is up 0.2 points on twelve months earlier; the Lancaster, PA peak since 2008 was 2.5% in June 2012; Pennsylvania overall reads 1.0%.
Lancaster County, PA has 16 watched banks; 16 Lancaster, PA banks sit in an elevated band. Lancaster, PA footprints: Fulton Bank National Assn (20 branches, stress 61) in Lancaster, PA; Ephrata National Bank (16 branches, stress 72) in Lancaster, PA; Bank Of Bird-In-Hand (11 branches, stress 68) in Lancaster, PA.
HUD lists 12 assisted multifamily properties in Lancaster County, PA with 1,087 units; 894 Lancaster, PA units are assisted, 7 Lancaster, PA properties under project-based Section 8.
6,476 of the 219,224 housing units in Lancaster, PA sit vacant. Lancaster County, PA permitted 398 multifamily units in twelve months; Lancaster, PA's one-to-four unit structures added 746 units in Lancaster County, PA.