ZIP 18101 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

ZIP code 18101 in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania carries a composite property-distress score of 24/100 — a low reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (93/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (72/100). The latent-versus-live split is 54/100 structural and 2/100 already moving. What sets it apart are the readings on 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 (phase confidence 41/100). Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

Households earn a median $41,542 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Roughly 25.8% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. On demographic stress specifically, 18101 scores 42/100. About 19% have a four-year degree. Around 50% of renters are cost-burdened. A median home runs $171,300 here, or 3.7 times local income. The ZIP holds roughly 2,786 housing units. About 5,789 people live here, median age 30. The tenure split is 8% owner-occupied to 92% rented. The vacancy rate is 9.6%.

Net-net, 18101 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.