ZIP 17961 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania · Distress market
On DLRadar's 0-100 public-record scale, ZIP 17961 in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania comes in at 20, a low composite-distress reading. The latent-versus-live split is 44/100 structural and 2/100 already moving. Its heaviest discrete signals: structural risk (44/100), construction/permit lag (30/100), institutional ownership (14/100). institutional ownership (14/100) and mortgage stress (8/100) stay muted. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (84/100).
The market reads peak — home values rose 4.2% year on year, and 21% higher over three years, at 28/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.
About 6,711 people live here, median age 46. The typical home is worth about $242,100 (2.3× income, relatively affordable). The vacancy rate is 6.3%. Owners hold 79% of homes, renters 21%. Around 11% of renters are cost-burdened. The poverty rate is 4.1% — low. Households earn a median $96,354 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. Educational attainment sits at 35% bachelor's-or-above. There are about 2,819 housing units across 17961. On demographic stress specifically, 17961 scores 19/100.
Broadly, 17961 is a steadier market — the deals are the exceptions, not the rule. Parcel-level detail for 17961 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced to public records.
The 17961 read uses the identical public-record model applied coast to coast, which means its 20/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 17961 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. Sparse data for 17961 shows as blanks, never estimates, and the score updates on every fresh public filing.
17961's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. For a buyer, 17961 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.
What is driving ZIP 17961’s distress
Tax delinquency, institutional ownership, insurance pressure, NFIP/flood, construction lag, price dislocation and auction velocity — plus the 0 individual distressed properties are broken out by owner, address, APN, per-property score and exit read inside DLRadar.
17961 at a glance
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