ZIP 18106 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP code 18106 in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania carries a composite property-distress score of 24/100 — a low reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. Structural risk reads 53/100 against active distress of 2/100. The sharpest non-environmental signals are structural risk (53/100), construction/permit lag (44/100), institutional ownership (17/100). institutional ownership (17/100) and mortgage stress (7/100) stay muted. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (93/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (73/100).

The market reads peak — home values rose 4.7% year on year, and 27% higher over three years, at 30/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

6,437 residents call 18106 home, typically aged 48. Roughly 9.3% live below the poverty line. A median home runs $412,200 here, or 4.2 times local income. Around 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The vacancy rate is 3.6%. Around 36% of renters are cost-burdened. Owners hold 80% of homes, renters 20%. Median household income is $86,361, near the U.S. median near $78,000. There are about 2,594 housing units across 18106. On demographic stress specifically, 18106 scores 28/100.

Broadly, 18106 is a steadier market — the deals are the exceptions, not the rule. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.

Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 18106's 24/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania or any ZIP coast to coast. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 18106 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

18106's score blends several independent layers — foreclosure and mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, bank headwind and structural exposure — into one 0–100 number, so understanding the components matters as much as the headline for anyone screening the ZIP. For a buyer, 18106 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.