ZIP 17980 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

DLRadar grades ZIP 17980 (Dauphin County, Pennsylvania) at a low 21/100 for overall property distress. What sets it apart are the readings on structural risk (46/100), construction/permit lag (29/100), institutional ownership (14/100). institutional ownership (14/100) and mortgage stress (6/100) stay muted. Structural exposure scores 46 and live distress 2 on the 0–100 scale. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (89/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (60/100)).

The market reads peak — home values rose 4.3% year on year, and 35% higher over three years, at 30/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

At $69,816, median income runs near typical U.S. levels. The typical home is worth about $149,600 (1.8× income, relatively affordable). Around 17% of renters are cost-burdened. Educational attainment sits at 14% bachelor's-or-above. The poverty rate is 6.6% — low. 79% of housing is owner-occupied. On demographic stress specifically, 17980 scores 22/100. About 3,222 people live here, median age 44. The ZIP holds roughly 1,495 housing units. Vacancy runs 14.0%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal.

Net-net, 17980 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. 17980 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

No ZIP is too small to score: 17980 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 21/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 17980 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

The 21/100 figure for 17980 is a composite, not one metric: it rolls up foreclosure and pre-foreclosure activity, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, local lender headwind, and structural risk into a single reading, which is why a ZIP can look calm on price yet score high on distress. Practically, 17980 works as a screen — verify the reading, drill to the specific parcels driving it, and carry the deal through capital and closing on the platform.