ZIP 17976 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania's ZIP 17976 registers 20/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (84/100)). The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (44/100), construction/permit lag (28/100), institutional ownership (14/100). On the quiet end sit institutional ownership (14/100) and mortgage stress (8/100). Structural risk reads 44/100 against active distress of 2/100.

The expansion-phase market in 17976 posted values that rose 5.5% over the year, at 32/100 phase confidence. Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.

Population is roughly 5,988 with a median age of 38. 74% of housing is owner-occupied. Rent burden reaches 44% of tenant households. Around 14% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. There are about 3,255 housing units across 17976. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 30/100. Vacancy runs 27.3%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. The poverty rate is 27.5% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. The typical home is worth about $55,200 (1.0× income, relatively affordable). At $46,684, median income runs below typical U.S. levels.

On the whole, 17976 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.