ZIP 15438 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Fayette County, Pennsylvania · High Poverty market
On DLRadar's 0-100 public-record scale, ZIP 15438 in Fayette County, Pennsylvania comes in at 23, a low composite-distress reading. Leading the profile are construction/permit lag (58/100), structural risk (54/100), institutional ownership (17/100). On the quiet end sit institutional ownership (17/100) and mortgage stress (8/100). The split runs 54/100 structural to 2/100 active on the ground. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (80/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (77/100)).
The market reads peak — home values rose 2.7% year on year, at 27/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.
Households earn a median $50,800 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. The poverty rate is 22.5% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. The ZIP holds roughly 984 housing units. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 28/100. Around 41% of renters are cost-burdened. Owners hold 83% of homes, renters 17%. Around 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. A median home runs $145,500 here, or 2.3 times local income. 2,011 residents call 15438 home, typically aged 50. The vacancy rate is 6.9%.
Net-net, 15438 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.
No ZIP is too small to score: 15438 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 23/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Sparse data for 15438 shows as blanks, never estimates, and the score updates on every fresh public filing.
Behind 15438's composite sit distinct signals (foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender and structural), each scored on its own before rolling up, so two ZIPs with the same total can describe very different situations on the ground. For a buyer, 15438 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.
What is driving ZIP 15438’s distress
Delinquent tax, institutional holdings, insurance strain, flood/NFIP exposure, build-out lag, price dislocation and auction pace — along with the 0 individual distressed properties are listed in full, with owner, address, APN, per-parcel score and exit-velocity read.
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