ZIP 18229 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Carbon County, Pennsylvania's ZIP 18229 registers 18/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: flood (NFIP) exposure (69/100), climate & FEMA risk (61/100). Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (42/100), structural risk (42/100), institutional ownership (16/100). On the quiet end sit institutional ownership (16/100) and mortgage stress (10/100). On the structural side it scores 42/100, with 3/100 of stress already active.

The peak-phase market in 18229 posted values that rose 4.7% over the year, and 33% higher over three years, at 30/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

The typical home is worth about $238,800 (3.2× income, relatively affordable). Vacancy runs 21.3%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. 9,136 residents call 18229 home, typically aged 49. 86% of housing is owner-occupied. On demographic stress specifically, 18229 scores 32/100. Rent burden reaches 61% of tenant households. Households earn a median $67,642 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. 8.9% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. The ZIP holds roughly 4,815 housing units. About 27% have a four-year degree.

On the whole, 18229 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. No parcel file is published for 18229 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

The number is not local guesswork: 18229's 18/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 18229 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

The 18/100 for 18229 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. For an operator, 18229 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.