ZIP 18049 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Scored purely from public records, 18049 (Lehigh County, Pennsylvania) returns a low composite of 24/100. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (93/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (73/100). Leading the profile are structural risk (53/100), construction/permit lag (44/100), institutional ownership (17/100). On the quiet end sit institutional ownership (17/100) and mortgage stress (7/100). Structural exposure scores 53 and live distress 2 on the 0–100 scale.

The market reads peak — home values rose 4.7% year on year, and 25% higher over three years, at 30/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

There are about 7,851 housing units across 18049. A median home runs $315,700 here, or 3.0 times local income. Vacancy runs 3.6%. The poverty rate is 5.4% — low. At $93,924, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. On demographic stress specifically, 18049 scores 27/100. Owners hold 75% of homes, renters 25%. About 38% have a four-year degree. About 18,693 people live here, median age 42. Rent burden reaches 46% of tenant households.

On balance, 18049 reads as a higher-equity, stable market where distress is selective and worth pinpointing parcel by parcel. No parcel file is published for 18049 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

Whether 18049 runs hot or quiet, its 24/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 18049 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania or nationwide. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 18049 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

The 24/100 for 18049 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. Treat 18049 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.