ZIP 17048 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

On DLRadar's 0-100 public-record scale, ZIP 17048 in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania comes in at 21, a low composite-distress reading. Structural risk reads 47/100 against active distress of 2/100. The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (47/100), construction/permit lag (28/100), institutional ownership (15/100). institutional ownership (15/100) and mortgage stress (6/100) stay muted. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (91/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (63/100)).

The peak-phase market in 17048 posted values that rose 4.3% over the year (phase confidence 31/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

Owners hold 68% of homes, renters 32%. The ZIP holds roughly 1,753 housing units. Rent burden reaches 29% of tenant households. The poverty rate is 17.7% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. Population is roughly 3,801 with a median age of 41. On demographic stress specifically, 17048 scores 27/100. A median home runs $144,200 here, or 1.9 times local income. Around 13% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The vacancy rate is 10.8%. Median household income is $72,873, near the U.S. median near $78,000.

Overall, 17048 shows a mixed profile — neither uniformly stressed nor insulated — so opportunity is property-specific. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.

Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 17048's 21/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania or any ZIP coast to coast. Where the public record is thin for 17048, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.

Each component behind 17048 - foreclosure, mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, lender pullback, structural exposure - is graded on its own before the 21/100 roll-up. For a buyer, 17048 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.