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

Montgomery County, Pennsylvania sits inside DLRadar's nationwide distress index, built entirely from public records. DLRadar scores 71 ZIPs here, with a mean composite of 26/100. Lender pressure in Montgomery County registers 49/100 — a moderate bank-stress headwind. Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 26 to 28 out of 100.

Currently peak, Montgomery County saw prices rise 4.2% year over year, a 28/100-confidence read. This late in the run, the opportunity narrows as the ZIP scores below show.

At +4.2% YoY and 28/100 confidence, selectivity rules — target the few ZIPs carrying distress. A mid-cycle 49/100 lender reading means a blend the ZIP scores sort out.

Distress concentrates in ZIP 19083 (28/100), ZIP 19087 (27/100), ZIP 19460 (27/100), ZIP 18054 (26/100), ZIP 18073 (26/100), ZIP 18074 (26/100) — drill into any for the parcel-level read. Also scored across the county: 18076, 18914, 18915, 18936, 18964, 18969, 19001, 19002, 19003, 19004.

Profile-wise, the Montgomery County ZIPs on file show 75% owner-occupancy, a median age of 43.4, typical home values near $512,710, 5.2% of units sitting vacant, a 5.4% poverty rate, incomes around $119,913. These fundamentals drive the kind of distress to expect and the buyer pool on exit.

At 26/100 composite over 71 ZIPs, the opportunity hides below the average for a disciplined buyer. Inside DLRadar, each Montgomery County property carries owner, address and APN, a distress reading, the lender on title and exit timing.

Because Montgomery County, Pennsylvania is scored on the identical public-record model used nationwide, even a quiet county is measured on one scale — letting you weigh Montgomery County against neighboring markets or the rest of Pennsylvania on equal footing.

For anyone buying in Montgomery County, the scores answer one question first — which ZIPs deserve the marketing budget, with the top reading 28/100. All Montgomery County inputs are public record — recorder, court, FHFA and FDIC — and the score is rebuilt on ingest rather than modelled forward.

Drilling in, Montgomery County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 19083 (28/100), 19087 (27/100), 19460 (27/100), 18054 (26/100), 18073 (26/100), 18074 (26/100). DLRadar also scores 18076, 18914, 18915, 18936, 18964, 18969, 19001, 19002 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.

Under Montgomery 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.