ZIP 17518 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

In Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, ZIP 17518 scores 29 of 100 for composite distress, a low level on DLRadar's public-record index. Latent structural risk is 68/100 while live distress already moving reads 2/100. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (95/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (89/100). The sharpest non-environmental signals are construction/permit lag (87/100), structural risk (68/100), institutional ownership (20/100). institutional ownership (20/100) and mortgage stress (8/100) stay muted.

Prices here sit in a expansion phase: values rose 5.8% over the trailing year, and 11% higher over three years (phase confidence 29/100). Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

1,371 residents call 17518 home, typically aged 31. The ZIP holds roughly 467 housing units. Home values center near $381,900, an affordability ratio of 5.3×. 10.8% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Owners hold 67% of homes, renters 33%. The vacancy rate is 2.4%. Around 28% of renters are cost-burdened. Around 9% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. On demographic stress specifically, 17518 scores 36/100. Households earn a median $59,352 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure.

Net-net, 17518 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. Parcel-level detail for 17518 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced to public records.

Big metro or rural, 17518 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 29/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and the nation. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 17518 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

The 29/100 figure for 17518 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. For a buyer, 17518 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.