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

DLRadar tracks property distress across Mercer County, Pennsylvania using verifiable public-record signals alone. The county spans 28 scored ZIP codes, averaging 22/100 composite distress. Individual Mercer County ZIPs score between 16 and 23 on the 0–100 composite. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 53/100 (moderate).

In its peak phase, Mercer County home prices rose 4.2% across the last year (phase confidence 28/100). With pricing topped out, distress turns selective with opportunity concentrated by ZIP.

At +4.2% YoY and 28/100 confidence, the wins are surgical so the headline market won't hand it over. A mid-cycle 53/100 lender reading points to a blend the ZIP scores sort out.

Distress concentrates in ZIP 16057 (23/100), ZIP 16113 (23/100), ZIP 16114 (23/100), ZIP 16121 (23/100), ZIP 16124 (23/100), ZIP 16130 (23/100) — drill into any for the parcel-level read. Coverage extends to 16133, 16137, 16145, 16146, 16148, 16150, 16151, 16154, 16161, 16125 among others.

On the housing-and-income side, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Mercer County show a median age of 45.6, 79% owner-occupancy, median home values around $164,779 (below the national figure), vacancy near 13.3%, incomes around $63,194, 11.9% of households below the poverty line. Taken together, they frame where pressure builds and how liquid the exit will be.

With a low 22/100 reading over 28 ZIPs, the edge is selective acquisition — work it parcel by parcel. A DLRadar subscription opens every Mercer County parcel: owner, APN and address, its own score, the lender behind it and an exit read.

Whether Mercer 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 Mercer County can be compared directly against any county in the country.

The point of scoring Mercer County, Pennsylvania is to narrow it — the high-composite ZIPs carry the distress, and everything below them rarely repays the outreach cost. Provenance for Mercer County is explicit: recorders and courts for filings, FHFA for prices, FDIC for lenders. No interpolation, no synthetic values.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Mercer County are 16057 (23/100), 16113 (23/100), 16114 (23/100), 16121 (23/100), 16124 (23/100), 16130 (23/100). DLRadar also scores 16133, 16137, 16145, 16146, 16148, 16150, 16151, 16154 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 Mercer 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.