ZIP 17978 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Dauphin County, Pennsylvania · Distress market
Composite property distress in 17978 (Dauphin County, Pennsylvania) lands at 21/100 — low on DLRadar's distress scoring. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (88/100). Its heaviest discrete signals: structural risk (45/100), construction/permit lag (30/100), institutional ownership (14/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (14/100) and mortgage stress (6/100) register low. Structural exposure scores 45 and live distress 2 on the 0–100 scale.
Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 4.3% over the trailing year (phase confidence 30/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.
The vacancy rate is 6.8%. There are about 216 housing units across 17978. 61% of housing is owner-occupied. At $59,444, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. A median home runs $275,000 here, or 3.9 times local income. Roughly 4.9% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas. About 670 people live here, median age 35. On demographic stress specifically, 17978 scores 29/100. About 1% have a four-year degree. Around 0% of renters are cost-burdened.
Overall, 17978 shows a mixed profile — neither uniformly stressed nor insulated — so opportunity is property-specific. There is no property file for 17978 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable records.
Whether 17978 runs hot or quiet, its 21/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 17978 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania or nationwide. 17978 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.
17978's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. In workflow terms, 17978 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.
Distress signal breakdown — ZIP 17978
Tax delinquency, institutional ownership, insurance pressure, NFIP/flood, construction lag, price dislocation and auction velocity — plus the 0 individual distressed properties are listed in full, with owner, address, APN, per-parcel score and exit-velocity read.
Snapshot: 17978 by the numbers
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