ZIP 17960 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 17960 (Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania) at a low 20/100 for overall property distress. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (84/100). On the structural side it scores 44/100, with 2/100 of stress already active. Property-level stress concentrates in 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.

The market reads expansion — home values rose 5.5% year on year, and 32% higher over three years (phase confidence 32/100). Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

Roughly 4.0% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas. Around 32% of renters are cost-burdened. The vacancy rate is 9.3%. About 25% have a four-year degree. The ZIP holds roughly 2,024 housing units. About 4,084 people live here, median age 49. On demographic stress specifically, 17960 scores 25/100. A median home runs $231,300 here, or 3.1 times local income. Households earn a median $70,326 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure. The tenure split is 86% owner-occupied to 14% rented.

Net-net, 17960 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.