ZIP 15221 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP 15221's composite property-distress score is 25/100 - DLRadar classes that as low for Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. The sharpest non-environmental signals are structural risk (57/100), construction/permit lag (38/100), institutional ownership (20/100). institutional ownership (20/100) and mortgage stress (9/100) stay muted. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (98/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (92/100)). On the structural side it scores 57/100, with 3/100 of stress already active.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.7% over the trailing year, and 13% higher over three years, at 27/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

At $55,241, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 31/100. Around 36% of renters are cost-burdened. The ZIP holds roughly 17,268 housing units. Around 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 29,513 residents call 15221 home, typically aged 40. Roughly 19.4% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. The typical home is worth about $171,300 (2.8× income, relatively affordable). The tenure split is 45% owner-occupied to 55% rented. Vacancy runs 14.7%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal.

Net-net, 15221 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. No parcel file is published for 15221 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

No ZIP is too small to score: 15221 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 25/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Where the record is thin for 15221, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.

The 25/100 for 15221 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. In workflow terms, 15221 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.