ZIP 17936 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

On DLRadar's 0-100 public-record scale, ZIP 17936 in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania comes in at 20, a low composite-distress reading. Structural risk reads 44/100 against active distress of 2/100. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (84/100). Its heaviest discrete signals: structural risk (44/100), construction/permit lag (30/100), institutional ownership (14/100). On the quiet end sit institutional ownership (14/100) and mortgage stress (8/100).

The market reads peak — home values rose 4.2% year on year, at 28/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

1,004 residents call 17936 home, typically aged 39. The typical home is worth about $122,700 (1.4× income, relatively affordable). There are about 484 housing units across 17936. Owners hold 73% of homes, renters 27%. Vacancy runs 21.3%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Roughly 4.8% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas. Around 23% of renters are cost-burdened. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 22/100. Median household income is $82,344, near the U.S. median near $78,000. Around 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher.

Taken together, 17936 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.

The 17936 read uses the identical public-record model applied coast to coast, which means its 20/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 17936 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 17936 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

Behind 17936'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. For an operator, 17936 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.