ZIP 17948 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Composite property distress in 17948 (Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania) lands at 20/100 — low on DLRadar's public-record scoring. The sharpest non-environmental signals are structural risk (44/100), construction/permit lag (28/100), institutional ownership (14/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (14/100) and mortgage stress (8/100) register low. The latent-versus-live split is 44/100 structural and 2/100 already moving. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (84/100).

The market reads expansion — home values rose 5.5% year on year (phase confidence 32/100). Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

The ZIP holds roughly 2,526 housing units. Roughly 30.8% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. Around 41% of renters are cost-burdened. About 4,124 people live here, median age 38. The vacancy rate is 37.2% — elevated. A median home runs $55,100 here, or 0.9 times local income. About 9% have a four-year degree. On demographic stress specifically, 17948 scores 32/100. Households earn a median $45,720 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. The tenure split is 66% owner-occupied to 34% rented.

Net-net, 17948 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.