ZIP 17859 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Columbia County, Pennsylvania's ZIP 17859 registers 21/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. Structural risk reads 48/100 against active distress of 2/100. The most distinctive pressure shows up in construction/permit lag (57/100), structural risk (48/100), institutional ownership (17/100). On the quiet end sit institutional ownership (17/100) and mortgage stress (8/100). Environmental exposure also runs high (flood (NFIP) exposure (74/100), climate & FEMA risk (64/100)).

The expansion-phase market in 17859 posted values that rose 5.5% over the year, and 54% higher over three years, at 32/100 phase confidence. Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.

The typical home is worth about $224,800 (3.0× income, relatively affordable). The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 25/100. Population is roughly 2,637 with a median age of 51. There are about 1,336 housing units across 17859. The poverty rate is 5.7% — low. At $70,577, median income runs near typical U.S. levels. Vacancy runs 20.3%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Around 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 90% of housing is owner-occupied. Rent burden reaches 27% of tenant households.

On the whole, 17859 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.