ZIP 17731 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

On DLRadar's 0-100 distress scale, ZIP 17731 in Sullivan County, Pennsylvania comes in at 15, a low composite-distress reading. Its standout signals are institutional ownership (49/100), structural risk (35/100), mortgage stress (31/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (31/100) and construction/permit lag (19/100). It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: flood (NFIP) exposure (76/100). Latent structural risk is 35/100 while live distress already moving reads 9/100.

The expansion-phase market in 17731 posted values that rose 5.1% over the year (phase confidence 42/100). Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

At $95,625, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. The poverty rate is 6.3% — low. Vacancy runs 78.6%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Population is roughly 191 with a median age of 64. A median home runs $313,900 here, or 2.6 times local income. Around 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. There are about 488 housing units across 17731. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 32/100. Rent burden reaches 50% of tenant households. The tenure split is 83% owner-occupied to 17% rented.

On the whole, 17731 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. There is no property file for 17731 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable records.

The 17731 read uses the identical scoring model applied coast to coast, which means its 15/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 17731 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Sullivan County, Pennsylvania. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 17731, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

The 15/100 figure for 17731 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, 17731 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.