ZIP 17540 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Composite property distress in 17540 (Lancaster County, Pennsylvania) lands at 29/100 — low on DLRadar's public-record scoring. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (95/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (89/100)). Structural exposure scores 68 and live distress 2 on the 0–100 scale. The most distinctive pressure shows up in construction/permit lag (87/100), structural risk (68/100), institutional ownership (20/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (20/100) and mortgage stress (8/100) register low.

Prices here sit in a expansion phase: values rose 5.8% over the trailing year, and 29% higher over three years, at 29/100 phase confidence. Even climbing markets leave specific parcels in distress; the scoring isolates them.

At $83,229, median income runs near typical U.S. levels. Rent burden reaches 39% of tenant households. 7.3% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Educational attainment sits at 30% bachelor's-or-above. The typical home is worth about $339,200 (3.8× income, relatively affordable). On demographic stress specifically, 17540 scores 31/100. Vacancy runs 3.8%. The ZIP holds roughly 4,008 housing units. About 11,172 people live here, median age 34. 60% of housing is owner-occupied.

Overall, 17540 shows a mixed profile — neither uniformly stressed nor insulated — so opportunity is property-specific. Parcel-level detail for 17540 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced to public records.

Big metro or rural, 17540 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. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 17540, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

17540's score blends several independent layers — foreclosure and mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, bank headwind and structural exposure — into one 0–100 number, so understanding the components matters as much as the headline for anyone screening the ZIP. Treat 17540 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.