ZIP 17970 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania · High Vacancy market
ZIP code 17970 in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania carries a composite property-distress score of 20/100 — a low reading on DLRadar's deterministic distress index. The latent-versus-live split is 45/100 structural and 2/100 already moving. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (84/100)). Its heaviest discrete signals: structural risk (45/100), construction/permit lag (35/100), institutional ownership (13/100). On the quiet end sit institutional ownership (13/100) and mortgage stress (8/100).
Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 4.2% over the trailing year, at 28/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.
Owners hold 76% of homes, renters 24%. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 23/100. The ZIP holds roughly 1,903 housing units. Vacancy runs 19.9%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. The typical home is worth about $73,900 (1.2× income, relatively affordable). Households earn a median $61,726 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Educational attainment sits at 17% bachelor's-or-above. Rent burden reaches 32% of tenant households. 3,130 residents call 17970 home, typically aged 43. Roughly 11.5% live below the poverty line.
On the whole, 17970 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. Parcel-level detail for 17970 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced.
The number is not local guesswork: 17970's 20/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 17970 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.
Behind 17970's composite sit distinct signals (foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender and structural), each scored on its own before rolling up, so two ZIPs with the same total can describe very different situations on the ground. For an operator, 17970 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.
Distress signal breakdown — ZIP 17970
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