ZIP 17931 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

In Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, ZIP 17931 scores 20 of 100 for composite distress, a low level on DLRadar's public-record index. The sharpest non-environmental signals are structural risk (44/100), construction/permit lag (30/100), institutional ownership (14/100). institutional ownership (14/100) and mortgage stress (8/100) stay muted. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (84/100). Structural risk reads 44/100 against active distress of 2/100.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 4.2% over the trailing year, and 22% higher over three years (phase confidence 28/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

18.4% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. About 8,726 people live here, median age 41. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 27/100. Around 28% of renters are cost-burdened. About 11% have a four-year degree. There are about 2,373 housing units across 17931. At $55,636, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. Vacancy runs 14.0%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. The typical home is worth about $125,500 (2.1× income, relatively affordable). Owners hold 81% of homes, renters 19%.

Net-net, 17931 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. While 17931 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.

Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 17931's 20/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania or any ZIP coast to coast. 17931 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.

17931's score blends several independent layers — foreclosure and mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, bank headwind and structural exposure — into one 0–100 number, so understanding the components matters as much as the headline for anyone screening the ZIP. For a buyer, 17931 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.