ZIP 16148 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Mercer County, Pennsylvania's ZIP 16148 registers 18/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. Structural exposure scores 40 and live distress 2 on the 0–100 scale. The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (40/100), construction/permit lag (19/100), institutional ownership (15/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (15/100) and mortgage stress (7/100) register low. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (77/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (64/100).

The market reads expansion — home values rose 5.5% year on year, and 25% higher over three years, at 32/100 phase confidence. Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

About 16,563 people live here, median age 49. A median home runs $197,900 here, or 2.6 times local income. On demographic stress specifically, 16148 scores 25/100. There are about 8,259 housing units across 16148. Rent burden reaches 35% of tenant households. Vacancy runs 4.7%. About 35% have a four-year degree. Households earn a median $72,680 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure. The tenure split is 74% owner-occupied to 26% rented. Roughly 9.9% live below the poverty line.

Net-net, 16148 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.