ZIP 15779 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

In Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, ZIP 15779 scores 26 of 100 for composite distress, a low level on DLRadar's distress index. What sets it apart are the readings on construction/permit lag (65/100), structural risk (60/100), institutional ownership (20/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (20/100) and mortgage stress (9/100) register low. Latent structural risk is 60/100 while live distress already moving reads 3/100. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (88/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (88/100).

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.7% over the trailing year (phase confidence 27/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

Population is roughly 575 with a median age of 39. Vacancy runs 27.6%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. A median home runs $155,500 here, or 4.0 times local income. 40.4% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 49/100. At $44,901, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. The tenure split is 100% owner-occupied to 0% rented. There are about 116 housing units across 15779. About 5% have a four-year degree.

Net-net, 15779 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. No parcel file is published for 15779 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

Big metro or rural, 15779 runs through one identical scoring model, so its 26/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania and the nation. 15779 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.

15779's score blends several independent layers — foreclosure and mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, bank headwind and structural exposure — into one 0–100 number, so understanding the components matters as much as the headline for anyone screening the ZIP. For a buyer, 15779 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.