ZIP 17954 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

ZIP code 17954 in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania carries a composite property-distress score of 20/100 — a low reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (84/100). What sets it apart are the readings on 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. Structural risk reads 44/100 against active distress of 2/100.

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

Vacancy runs 19.6%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Rent burden reaches 32% of tenant households. The tenure split is 49% owner-occupied to 51% rented. About 14% have a four-year degree. About 4,564 people live here, median age 43. Households earn a median $56,736 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. A median home runs $83,300 here, or 1.4 times local income. There are about 2,352 housing units across 17954. Roughly 22.9% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. On demographic stress specifically, 17954 scores 30/100.

Net-net, 17954 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.