ZIP 17954 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP code 17954 in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania carries a composite property-distress score of 20/100 — a low reading on DLRadar's deterministic distress index. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (84/100). Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (45/100), construction/permit lag (35/100), institutional ownership (13/100). institutional ownership (13/100) and mortgage stress (8/100) stay muted. Structural risk reads 45/100 against active distress of 2/100.

The market reads peak — home values rose 4.2% year on year, at 28/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

The vacancy rate is 19.6% — elevated. Rent burden reaches 32% of tenant households. 49% of housing is owner-occupied. Educational attainment sits at 14% bachelor's-or-above. 4,564 residents call 17954 home, typically aged 43. Households earn a median $56,736 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Home values center near $83,300, an affordability ratio of 1.4× — accessible. 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. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 30/100.

Taken together, 17954 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 17954 read uses the identical scoring model applied coast to coast, which means its 20/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 17954 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. 17954 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.

The 20/100 for 17954 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. For a buyer, 17954 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.