ZIP 17109 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 17109 (Dauphin County, Pennsylvania) at a low 26/100 for overall property distress. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (91/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (64/100)). Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (81/100), structural risk (60/100), institutional ownership (15/100). On the quiet end sit institutional ownership (15/100) and mortgage stress (6/100). Structural exposure scores 60 and live distress 2 on the 0–100 scale.

The expansion-phase market in 17109 posted values that rose 5.6% over the year, and 25% higher over three years, at 35/100 phase confidence. Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.

Population is roughly 27,422 with a median age of 35. There are about 11,623 housing units across 17109. 53% of housing is owner-occupied. At $70,618, median income runs near typical U.S. levels. Vacancy runs 6.8%. The poverty rate is 10.1%. Around 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Rent burden reaches 38% of tenant households. The typical home is worth about $215,900 (2.9× income, relatively affordable). The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 29/100.

On balance 17109 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.