ZIP 15944 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 15944 (Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania) at a low 26/100 for overall property distress. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (59/100), construction/permit lag (53/100), institutional ownership (33/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (33/100) and mortgage stress (13/100) register low. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: flood (NFIP) exposure (87/100), climate & FEMA risk (78/100). On the structural side it scores 59/100, with 4/100 of stress already active.

The market reads expansion — home values rose 5.0% year on year, and 18% higher over three years (phase confidence 32/100). Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

Roughly 8.9% live below the poverty line. About 3,198 people live here, median age 41. Households earn a median $70,086 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure. The tenure split is 86% owner-occupied to 14% rented. Around 29% of renters are cost-burdened. About 23% have a four-year degree. The vacancy rate is 16.5% — elevated. On demographic stress specifically, 15944 scores 25/100. The ZIP holds roughly 1,447 housing units. A median home runs $155,000 here, or 2.3 times local income.

Net-net, 15944 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.