ZIP 17953 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Scored purely from public records, 17953 (Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania) returns a low composite of 20/100. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (84/100)). Structural exposure scores 44 and live distress 2 on the 0–100 scale. Leading the profile 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.

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

Households earn a median $72,500 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 25/100. 7.5% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Owners hold 86% of homes, renters 14%. Educational attainment sits at 20% bachelor's-or-above. Home values center near $122,800, an affordability ratio of 1.5× — accessible. There are about 206 housing units across 17953. The vacancy rate is 30.7% — elevated. Rent burden reaches 41% of tenant households. 335 residents call 17953 home, typically aged 46.

Taken together, 17953 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. No parcel file is published for 17953 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

No ZIP is too small to score: 17953 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 20/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 17953 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

The 20/100 figure for 17953 is a composite, not one metric: it rolls up foreclosure and pre-foreclosure activity, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, local lender headwind, and structural risk into a single reading, which is why a ZIP can look calm on price yet score high on distress. For an operator, 17953 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.