ZIP 17087 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

On DLRadar's 0-100 public-record scale, ZIP 17087 in Berks County, Pennsylvania comes in at 19, a low composite-distress reading. Leading the profile are structural risk (42/100), institutional ownership (15/100), construction/permit lag (14/100). By contrast, construction/permit lag (14/100) and mortgage stress (6/100) register low. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (89/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (62/100). Structural exposure scores 42 and live distress 2 on the 0–100 scale.

The peak-phase market in 17087 posted values that rose 3.3% over the year, and 25% higher over three years, at 32/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

84% of housing is owner-occupied. The poverty rate is 4.3% — low. Rent burden reaches 21% of tenant households. A median home runs $225,200 here, or 2.4 times local income. At $91,510, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. There are about 936 housing units across 17087. Educational attainment sits at 22% bachelor's-or-above. Vacancy runs 5.1%. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 22/100. 2,444 residents call 17087 home, typically aged 38.

Overall 17087 looks resilient on the surface, so the edge is isolating individual stressed parcels. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.

No ZIP is too small to score: 17087 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. 17087 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.

Behind 17087's composite sit distinct signals (foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender and structural), each scored on its own before rolling up, so two ZIPs with the same total can describe very different situations on the ground. For a buyer, 17087 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.