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

Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania is mapped parcel-to-ZIP by DLRadar's public-record distress engine. ZIP-level distress ranges from 25/100 at the top down to 20/100. Coverage runs to 59 ZIPs across Schuylkill County, a low 20/100 average. Bank/credit headwind for the county is 35 on a 0–100 scale, a moderate reading.

The county market is in a peak phase: home prices rose 4.2% over the past year (phase confidence 28/100). With pricing topped out, the average masks the outliers so screen ZIP by ZIP.

With Schuylkill County flat at +4.2% YoY (28/100 confidence), opportunity is parcel-specific so the headline market won't hand it over. A mid-cycle 35/100 lender reading points to mixed owner- and bank-driven distress.

The most-distressed ZIP codes in Schuylkill County are 18202 (25/100), 18241 (25/100), 17978 (21/100), 17980 (21/100), 17901 (20/100), 17921 (20/100), each with its own full DLRadar report. Coverage extends to 17922, 17923, 17925, 17929, 17930, 17931, 17933, 17934, 17935, 17936 among others.

By the numbers, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Schuylkill County report incomes around $65,615, 12.6% of households below the poverty line, an owner-occupied share of 80%, a median age of 45.7, a 14.1% vacancy rate, median home values around $143,033 (below the national figure). Taken together, they signal the supply of motivated sellers and the speed of resale.

Net of it all, 20/100 over 59 ZIPs means Schuylkill County rewards parcel-by-parcel work where the ZIP scores point. Inside DLRadar, each Schuylkill County property carries owner, address and APN, a parcel-level score plus bank exposure and liquidity read.

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

The way to work Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania is top-down — start with the highest-scoring ZIPs (up to 25/100 here), then drill to the parcels driving those numbers, rather than blanketing Schuylkill County with undifferentiated outreach. Provenance for Schuylkill County is explicit: recorders and courts for filings, FHFA for prices, FDIC for lenders. No interpolation, no synthetic values.

The ZIP breakdown for Schuylkill County leads with 18202 (25/100), 18241 (25/100), 17978 (21/100), 17980 (21/100), 17901 (20/100), 17921 (20/100). DLRadar also scores 17922, 17923, 17925, 17929, 17930, 17931, 17933, 17934 and more across the county. Because each ZIP is graded on its own foreclosure, tax and lender record, the county's distress is best read code by code rather than as a single number.

DLRadar's composite for Schuylkill 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.