ZIP 17985 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania · High Vacancy market
In Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, ZIP 17985 scores 19 of 100 for composite distress, a low level on DLRadar's distress index. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (76/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (62/100). The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (42/100), construction/permit lag (28/100), institutional ownership (14/100). institutional ownership (14/100) and mortgage stress (8/100) stay muted. Latent structural risk is 42/100 while live distress already moving reads 2/100.
The peak-phase market in 17985 posted values that rose 4.2% over the year (phase confidence 28/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.
Home values center near $179,700, an affordability ratio of 2.6× — accessible. There are about 672 housing units across 17985. Owners hold 87% of homes, renters 13%. Educational attainment sits at 12% bachelor's-or-above. 1,265 residents call 17985 home, typically aged 51. Around 58% of renters are cost-burdened. Vacancy runs 17.8%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. At $69,375, median income runs near typical U.S. levels. 5.2% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 30/100.
Taken together, 17985 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. No parcel file is published for 17985 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.
Big metro or rural, 17985 runs through one identical scoring model, so its 19/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania and the nation. 17985 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.
The 19/100 for 17985 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. For an operator, 17985 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.
Signal-by-signal read on 17985
Tax arrears, institutional buyers, insurance load, flood exposure, stalled construction, dislocated pricing and auction velocity — together with the 0 individual distressed properties (owner, address, APN, per-property score and exit read) are in the full DLRadar report.
Snapshot: 17985 by the numbers
Current distress, phase, housing and lender-pressure figures for 17985, drawn from the same report attached to each property.
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Every distressed parcel in 17985 comes with owner and address, APN, its own distress score, bank exposure and an exit-velocity read — plus a one-click path to owner and lender records, refreshed continuously nationwide.
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