ZIP 18087 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Lehigh County, Pennsylvania · High Vacancy market
In Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, ZIP 18087 scores 24 of 100 for composite distress, a low level on DLRadar's distress index. Structurally it carries 54/100, against 2/100 of stress already in motion. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (54/100), construction/permit lag (47/100), institutional ownership (16/100). institutional ownership (16/100) and mortgage stress (7/100) stay muted. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (93/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (71/100).
The market reads peak — home values rose 4.7% year on year, at 30/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.
The tenure split is 30% owner-occupied to 70% rented. Roughly 12.5% live below the poverty line. The typical home is worth about $346,100 (5.3× income). The ZIP holds roughly 271 housing units. Vacancy runs 12.5%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Educational attainment sits at 32% bachelor's-or-above. About 609 people live here, median age 41. At $63,750, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 38/100. Rent burden reaches 29% of tenant households.
Net-net, 18087 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.
The 18087 read uses the identical scoring model applied coast to coast, which means its 24/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 18087 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed as records update; 18087 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.
The 24/100 figure for 18087 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. For an operator, 18087 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.
What is driving ZIP 18087’s distress
Tax delinquency, institutional ownership, insurance pressure, NFIP/flood, construction lag, price dislocation and auction velocity — plus the 0 individual distressed properties come with owner, address, APN, an individual score and an exit read in the complete report.
ZIP 18087 Stress Report snapshot
Current distress, phase, housing and lender-pressure figures for 18087, drawn from the same report attached to each property.
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The complete 18087 distress and acquisition report
Every distressed parcel in 18087 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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