ZIP 17820 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 17820 (Columbia County, Pennsylvania) at a low 20/100 for overall property distress. Environmental exposure also runs high (flood (NFIP) exposure (71/100), climate & FEMA risk (61/100)). Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (58/100), structural risk (47/100), institutional ownership (17/100). On the quiet end sit institutional ownership (17/100) and mortgage stress (8/100). Structural exposure scores 47 and live distress 2 on the 0–100 scale.

The expansion-phase market in 17820 posted values that rose 5.5% over the year, and 3% higher over three years, at 32/100 phase confidence. Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.

Population is roughly 5,528 with a median age of 46. The typical home is worth about $214,800 (3.1× income, relatively affordable). 77% of housing is owner-occupied. Around 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. There are about 2,647 housing units across 17820. Rent burden reaches 17% of tenant households. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 25/100. At $68,304, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. Vacancy runs 14.4%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. The poverty rate is 8.4%.

On the whole, 17820 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.