ZIP 18059 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 18059 (Lehigh County, Pennsylvania) at a low 24/100 for overall property distress. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (93/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (72/100). On the structural side it scores 54/100, with 2/100 of stress already active. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (54/100), construction/permit lag (50/100), institutional ownership (16/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (16/100) and mortgage stress (7/100) register low.

The market reads expansion — home values rose 7.1% year on year, and 21% higher over three years (phase confidence 41/100). Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

On demographic stress specifically, 18059 scores 21/100. About 34% have a four-year degree. About 547 people live here, median age 58. Roughly 6.4% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas. A median home runs $431,100 here, or 3.2 times local income. Households earn a median $133,173 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. The vacancy rate is 2.6%. The ZIP holds roughly 379 housing units. The tenure split is 95% owner-occupied to 5% rented.

Overall 18059 looks resilient on the surface, so the edge is isolating individual stressed parcels. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.