ZIP 17981 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania · Affordable market
Composite property distress in 17981 (Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania) lands at 20/100 — low on DLRadar's distress scoring. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (84/100). Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (45/100), construction/permit lag (35/100), institutional ownership (13/100). institutional ownership (13/100) and mortgage stress (8/100) stay muted. Structurally it carries 45/100, against 2/100 of stress already in motion.
The market reads peak — home values rose 4.2% year on year, and 12% higher over three years, at 28/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.
79% of housing is owner-occupied. A median home runs $92,700 here, or 1.2 times local income. 9.5% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Educational attainment sits at 12% bachelor's-or-above. The ZIP holds roughly 1,045 housing units. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 23/100. About 2,619 people live here, median age 45. Rent burden reaches 32% of tenant households. The vacancy rate is 10.7%. Households earn a median $70,789 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure.
On balance 17981 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.
Big metro or rural, 17981 runs through one identical scoring model, so its 20/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania and the nation. Sparse data for 17981 shows as blanks, never estimates, and the score updates on every fresh public filing.
The 20/100 figure for 17981 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, 17981 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.
Signal-by-signal read on 17981
Tax-delinquent parcels, institutional ownership, insurance strain, flood risk, construction lag, price dislocation and auction speed — plus the 0 individual distressed properties — each with owner, address, APN, its own distress score and an exit read — are in the full report.
The 17981 distress snapshot
A live read on 17981: distress, market phase, housing and bank pressure — identical to the report behind every parcel.
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The full 17981 file lists each distressed parcel with owner, address, APN, per-property score, bank exposure and exit-velocity read, and carries it straight through to owner and lender records. Refreshed continuously.
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