ZIP 17246 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

DLRadar grades ZIP 17246 (Franklin County, Pennsylvania) at a low 23/100 for overall property distress. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (77/100). Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (68/100), structural risk (52/100), institutional ownership (14/100). institutional ownership (14/100) stay muted. Structural exposure scores 52 and live distress 0 on the 0–100 scale.

The market reads peak — home values rose 3.4% year on year, at 24/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

The vacancy rate is 8.4%. Roughly 7.4% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas. There are about 183 housing units across 17246. Median household income is $72,331, near the U.S. median near $78,000. 598 residents call 17246 home, typically aged 33. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 59/100. 100% of housing is owner-occupied. Around 1% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher.

Net-net, 17246 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. While 17246 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.

No ZIP is too small to score: 17246 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 23/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 17246, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

The 23/100 figure for 17246 is a composite, not one metric: it rolls up foreclosure and pre-foreclosure activity, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, local lender headwind, and structural risk into a single reading, which is why a ZIP can look calm on price yet score high on distress. In workflow terms, 17246 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.