ZIP 17878 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

DLRadar grades ZIP 17878 (Columbia County, Pennsylvania) at a low 20/100 for overall property distress. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: flood (NFIP) exposure (77/100), climate & FEMA risk (72/100). Structural risk reads 46/100 against active distress of 2/100. The sharpest non-environmental signals are structural risk (46/100), construction/permit lag (39/100), institutional ownership (17/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (17/100) and mortgage stress (8/100) register low.

Prices here sit in a expansion phase: values rose 5.1% over the trailing year (phase confidence 30/100). Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.

At $76,875, median income runs near typical U.S. levels. The vacancy rate is 12.9% — elevated. Roughly 6.2% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas. Around 15% of renters are cost-burdened. The typical home is worth about $214,100 (2.5× income, relatively affordable). Educational attainment sits at 18% bachelor's-or-above. Owners hold 89% of homes, renters 11%. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 22/100. Population is roughly 1,573 with a median age of 49. There are about 659 housing units across 17878.

Taken together, 17878 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. While 17878 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.

The number is not local guesswork: 17878's 20/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. 17878 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.

Behind 17878's composite sit distinct signals (foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender and structural), each scored on its own before rolling up, so two ZIPs with the same total can describe very different situations on the ground. In workflow terms, 17878 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.