ZIP 17959 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

In Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, ZIP 17959 scores 20 of 100 for composite distress, a low level on DLRadar's distress index. The pressure is most legible in structural risk (45/100), construction/permit lag (35/100), institutional ownership (13/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (13/100) and mortgage stress (8/100) register low. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (84/100). Latent structural risk is 45/100 while live distress already moving reads 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.

Households earn a median $58,239 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 22/100. Roughly 9.4% live below the poverty line. 1,486 residents call 17959 home, typically aged 47. Around 20% of renters are cost-burdened. The vacancy rate is 17.5% — elevated. A median home runs $90,000 here, or 1.4 times local income. The tenure split is 78% owner-occupied to 22% rented. About 14% have a four-year degree. The ZIP holds roughly 734 housing units.

Net-net, 17959 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.

Whether 17959 runs hot or quiet, its 20/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 17959 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania or nationwide. 17959 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.

17959'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, 17959 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.