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

Across Monroe County, Pennsylvania, DLRadar grades every ZIP for foreclosure, mortgage, tax and bank-stress distress. 35 ZIP codes are tracked county-wide, averaging 23/100 distress. On bank and credit headwind, Monroe County scores 17/100. Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 19 to 25 out of 100.

In its peak phase, Monroe County home prices rose 4.2% across the last year (phase confidence 28/100). At this stage of the cycle, the opportunity narrows with opportunity concentrated by ZIP.

At +4.2% YoY and 28/100 confidence, the discount lives in outliers well beyond the county average. A steady 17/100 bank reading favors owner-driven distress more than bank stock.

By composite, 18424 (25/100), 18301 (24/100), 18302 (24/100), 18321 (24/100), 18322 (24/100), 18323 (24/100) top the county — tap any ZIP to go deeper. Further scored ZIPs: 18327, 18330, 18331, 18332, 18333, 18334, 18335, 18342, 18344, 18346.

By the numbers, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Monroe County run vacancy near 26.9%, a median age of 45, 79% owner-occupancy, 14% of households below the poverty line, median home values around $286,663 (below the national figure), incomes around $80,986. Taken together, they signal where pressure builds and how liquid the exit will be.

All in at 23/100 over 35 ZIPs, Monroe County is a screen-by-ZIP market rather than a blanket buy. Inside DLRadar, each Monroe County property carries owner, mailing address, APN, a distress score and bank-exposure read.

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

Scores in Monroe County, Pennsylvania exist to concentrate effort: a handful of ZIPs hold most of the distress, and the rest seldom justify the acquisition cost. Nothing in the Monroe County read is modelled: recorder and court filings drive foreclosure and lien signals, FHFA sets the price cycle, FDIC the lender stress, and a thin source stays blank.

Drilling in, Monroe County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 18424 (25/100), 18301 (24/100), 18302 (24/100), 18321 (24/100), 18322 (24/100), 18323 (24/100). DLRadar also scores 18327, 18330, 18331, 18332, 18333, 18334, 18335, 18342 and more across the county. Every one of these is scored independently — a ZIP's composite reflects its own recorded distress, which is why the county average alone hides where the real pressure sits.

DLRadar's composite for Monroe 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.