ZIP 17538 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Lancaster County, Pennsylvania's ZIP 17538 registers 29/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. On the structural side it scores 68/100, with 2/100 of stress already active. The most distinctive pressure shows up in construction/permit lag (87/100), structural risk (68/100), institutional ownership (20/100). institutional ownership (20/100) and mortgage stress (8/100) stay muted. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (95/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (89/100)).

The market reads expansion — home values rose 5.8% year on year, and 24% higher over three years (phase confidence 29/100). Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.

Vacancy runs 1.2%. A median home runs $299,300 here, or 3.0 times local income. Educational attainment sits at 42% bachelor's-or-above. The tenure split is 89% owner-occupied to 11% rented. Median household income is $96,463, above the U.S. median near $78,000. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 23/100. Population is roughly 7,121 with a median age of 52. Rent burden reaches 43% of tenant households. There are about 3,181 housing units across 17538. 1.7% of residents fall below the poverty threshold.

Overall, 17538 shows a mixed profile — neither uniformly stressed nor insulated — so opportunity is property-specific. There is no property file for 17538 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable public records.

Big metro or rural, 17538 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. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 17538 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

The 29/100 for 17538 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. Practically, 17538 works as a screen — verify the reading, drill to the specific parcels driving it, and carry the deal through capital and closing on the platform.