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

Potter County, Pennsylvania sits inside DLRadar's nationwide distress index, built entirely from public records. On bank and credit headwind, Potter County scores 58/100. Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 17 to 22 out of 100. The county spans 15 scored ZIP codes, averaging 19/100 composite distress.

In its expansion phase, Potter County home prices rose 5.1% across the last year, at 42/100 phase confidence. Through the growth, the laggards keep building so the laggard ZIPs are the opening.

Even appreciating at +5.1% YoY (42/100 confidence), well-bought parcels resell faster where the scoring still flags pressure. A moderate 58/100 lender headwind implies a blend the ZIP scores sort out.

The most-distressed ZIP codes in Potter County are 16921 (22/100), 16950 (21/100), 17729 (21/100), 16746 (19/100), 16748 (19/100), 16915 (19/100), each with its own full DLRadar report. Further scored ZIPs: 16922, 16923, 16927, 16937, 16941, 16943, 16948, 16720, 16743.

On the housing-and-income side, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Potter County report household income averaging about $58,088, below the national median, poverty running near 12.6%, vacancy near 42.3%, a median age of 48.9, an owner-occupied share of 85%, median home values around $138,593 (below the national figure). Numbers like these drive who sells under pressure and how fast a deal moves.

At 19/100 composite over 15 ZIPs, Potter County is a screen-by-ZIP market and not a county-wide play. Subscribers get each Potter County parcel's owner and contact detail, APN, a score, the bank behind the note and how fast it should sell.

The distress read for Potter County, Pennsylvania is refreshed as new public records post and uses the same methodology coast to coast, so Potter County stays directly comparable to any other market you track.

Scores in Potter County, Pennsylvania exist to concentrate effort: a handful of ZIPs hold most of the distress, and the rest seldom justify the acquisition cost. All Potter County inputs are public record — recorder, court, FHFA and FDIC — and the score is rebuilt on ingest rather than modelled forward.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Potter County are 16921 (22/100), 16950 (21/100), 17729 (21/100), 16746 (19/100), 16748 (19/100), 16915 (19/100). DLRadar also scores 16922, 16923, 16927, 16937, 16941, 16943, 16948, 16720 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 Potter 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.