ZIP 18104 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Lehigh County, Pennsylvania · Distress market
In Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, ZIP 18104 scores 24 of 100 for composite distress, a low level on DLRadar's distress index. On the structural side it scores 54/100, with 2/100 of stress already active. Its heaviest discrete signals: structural risk (54/100), construction/permit lag (47/100), institutional ownership (16/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (16/100) and mortgage stress (7/100) register low. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (93/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (71/100).
Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 4.7% over the trailing year, and 26% higher over three years (phase confidence 30/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.
47,999 residents call 18104 home, typically aged 39. Home values center near $336,400, an affordability ratio of 3.1× — accessible. Households earn a median $94,279 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 26/100. 70% of housing is owner-occupied. The ZIP holds roughly 19,193 housing units. The vacancy rate is 3.0%. Educational attainment sits at 45% bachelor's-or-above. The poverty rate is 7.6%. Rent burden reaches 39% of tenant households.
Overall 18104 looks resilient on the surface, so the edge is isolating individual stressed parcels. Parcel-level detail for 18104 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced.
No ZIP is too small to score: 18104 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 24/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. 18104 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.
Each component behind 18104 - foreclosure, mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, lender pullback, structural exposure - is graded on its own before the 24/100 roll-up. Practically, 18104 works as a screen — verify the reading, drill to the specific parcels driving it, and carry the deal through capital and closing on the platform.
Signal-by-signal read on 18104
Tax arrears, institutional buyers, insurance load, flood exposure, stalled construction, dislocated pricing and auction velocity — together with the 0 individual distressed properties are broken out by owner, address, APN, per-property score and exit read inside DLRadar.
Snapshot: 18104 by the numbers
Real-time distress, cycle phase, housing and bank-stress readings for 18104, the same set carried on every parcel.
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