Lehigh County, PA: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Lehigh County, PA, Pennsylvania: 36 ZIP codes scored, Lehigh County, PA averaging 24/100 (low, Lehigh, PA), from 20 to 26. Lehigh County, PA is in its peak phase (Lehigh, PA confidence 30/100): Lehigh, PA home prices up 4.7% (Lehigh, PA) over twelve months. Lehigh County, PA lender headwind: 46/100.
Highest-scoring Lehigh County, PA ZIPs: 18951 (26/100), 18041 (25/100), 18018 (24/100), 18031 (24/100), 18032 (24/100), 18034 (24/100). Also scored in Lehigh County, PA: 18036, 18037, 18046, 18049, 18051, 18052, 18053, 18059, 18065, 18066.
Across Lehigh County, PA's scored ZIPs: median home value $322,039, household income $82,462, 4.6% vacancy, 8.0% poverty, 74% owner-occupied, median age 42.0.
Lehigh County, PA insurance distress 24/100 (#1,980 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Lehigh, PA; 9 Lehigh, PA NFIP flood claims, $66K paid; Lehigh, PA construction distress 46/100.
24 banks with 82 branches lend in Lehigh County, PA; Lehigh, PA weighted bank stress 66/100, highest 83/100 in Lehigh, PA.
Lehigh County, PA unemployment 4.4% (Lehigh, PA -0.5 pts, six months); 734 new housing units permitted in Lehigh County, PA over twelve months, Lehigh, PA up 3% from 715; Lehigh, PA home prices +10.8% a year (Lehigh, PA) over three years.
151,220 housing units in Lehigh County, PA; 49,906 Lehigh, PA renter households; 51% of Lehigh, PA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 27% (Lehigh, PA) half or more.
Lehigh County, PA ranks #2,785 nationally on the opportunity index (Lehigh, PA, among all ranked counties); Lehigh, PA scores 24.5/100 and Lehigh, PA sits #60 inside Pennsylvania. Lehigh, PA is in the weak opportunity phase; Lehigh, PA's primary driver is bank institutional, Lehigh, PA second driver construction; Lehigh, PA moved up 140 places. 94 short-sale listings across Lehigh, PA; 71 days on market observed in Lehigh, PA; 4.9% vacancy over 36 Lehigh, PA ZIPs.
0.8% of Lehigh County, PA mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Lehigh, PA's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 3.0% (CFPB county sample). Lehigh, PA's ninety-day rate is unchanged on twelve months earlier; the Lehigh, PA peak since 2008 was 4.9% in February 2010; Pennsylvania overall reads 1.0%.
Lehigh County, PA has 14 watched banks; 14 Lehigh, PA banks sit in an elevated band. Lehigh, PA footprints: Embassy Bk Lehigh Valley (6 branches, stress 83) in Lehigh, PA; Fulton Bank National Assn (5 branches, stress 61) in Lehigh, PA; Qnb Bank (3 branches, stress 78) in Lehigh, PA.
HUD lists 9 assisted multifamily properties in Lehigh County, PA with 698 units; 590 Lehigh, PA units are assisted, 7 Lehigh, PA properties under project-based Section 8.
6,834 of the 151,220 housing units in Lehigh, PA sit vacant. Lehigh County, PA permitted 284 multifamily units in twelve months; Lehigh, PA's one-to-four unit structures added 450 units in Lehigh County, PA.