ZIP 17888 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Columbia County, Pennsylvania · High Vacancy market
Scored on a fixed 0-100 scale, 17888 (Columbia County, Pennsylvania) returns a low composite of 16/100. On the structural side it scores 35/100, with 0/100 of stress already active. The pressure is most legible in structural risk (35/100), institutional ownership (17/100), construction/permit lag (6/100). institutional ownership (17/100) and construction/permit lag (6/100) stay muted. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: flood (NFIP) exposure (72/100), climate & FEMA risk (64/100).
Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 4.2% over the trailing year (phase confidence 28/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.
The poverty rate is 19.3% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 46/100. Vacancy runs 14.2%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. 497 residents call 17888 home, typically aged 48. Home values center near $156,300. The ZIP holds roughly 205 housing units. The tenure split is 91% owner-occupied to 9% rented. Rent burden reaches 15% of tenant households. Around 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher.
Taken together, 17888 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. There is no property file for 17888 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable records.
Big metro or rural, 17888 runs through one identical scoring model, so its 16/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Columbia County, Pennsylvania and the nation. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed as records update; 17888 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.
The 16/100 figure for 17888 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, 17888 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.
Signal-by-signal read on 17888
Delinquent tax, institutional holdings, insurance strain, flood/NFIP exposure, build-out lag, price dislocation and auction pace — along with the 0 individual distressed properties — each with owner, address, APN, its own distress score and an exit read — are in the full report.
Snapshot: 17888 by the numbers
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