ZIP 17017 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

DLRadar grades ZIP 17017 (Northumberland County, Pennsylvania) at a low 19/100 for overall property distress. On the structural side it scores 41/100, with 1/100 of stress already active. The sharpest non-environmental signals are construction/permit lag (46/100), structural risk (41/100), institutional ownership (7/100). institutional ownership (7/100) and mortgage stress (4/100) stay muted. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (82/100)).

The peak-phase market in 17017 posted values that rose 4.2% over the year, at 29/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

Owners hold 82% of homes, renters 18%. There are about 764 housing units across 17017. Roughly 5.5% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas. Vacancy runs 12.0%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. About 1,572 people live here, median age 52. About 21% have a four-year degree. Rent burden reaches 34% of tenant households. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 26/100. Home values center near $216,600, an affordability ratio of 2.8× — accessible. Median household income is $70,625, near the U.S. median near $78,000.

Net-net, 17017 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. There is no property file for 17017 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable public records.

No ZIP is too small to score: 17017 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 19/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. 17017 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.

17017's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. Practically, 17017 works as a screen — verify the reading, drill to the specific parcels driving it, and carry the deal through capital and closing on the platform.