ZIP 17948 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania's ZIP 17948 registers 20/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. Its heaviest discrete signals: structural risk (44/100), construction/permit lag (30/100), institutional ownership (14/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (14/100) and mortgage stress (8/100) register low. Structural exposure scores 44 and live distress 2 on the 0–100 scale. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (84/100)).

The peak-phase market in 17948 posted values that rose 4.2% over the year, at 28/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

There are about 2,526 housing units across 17948. The poverty rate is 30.8% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. Around 41% of renters are cost-burdened. Population is roughly 4,124 with a median age of 38. The vacancy rate is 37.2% — elevated. Home values center near $55,100, an affordability ratio of 0.9× — accessible. Around 9% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 32/100. At $45,720, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. Owners hold 66% of homes, renters 34%.

Net-net, 17948 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. 17948 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

Big metro or rural, 17948 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 20/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania and the nation. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 17948, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

17948'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 an operator, 17948 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.