ZIP 17921 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania's ZIP 17921 registers 20/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (83/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (60/100). The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (44/100), construction/permit lag (29/100), institutional ownership (14/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (14/100) and mortgage stress (8/100) register low. Structural risk reads 44/100 against active distress of 2/100.

The market reads expansion — home values rose 5.5% year on year, and 42% higher over three years, at 32/100 phase confidence. Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

The tenure split is 78% owner-occupied to 22% rented. Households earn a median $71,600 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure. A median home runs $149,500 here, or 1.9 times local income. There are about 2,921 housing units across 17921. Vacancy runs 17.2%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. On demographic stress specifically, 17921 scores 27/100. About 7,029 people live here, median age 45. Roughly 12.0% live below the poverty line. About 12% have a four-year degree. Rent burden reaches 40% of tenant households.

Net-net, 17921 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.