ZIP 18242 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Composite property distress in 18242 (Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania) lands at 20/100 — low on DLRadar's distress scoring. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (45/100), construction/permit lag (35/100), institutional ownership (13/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (13/100) and mortgage stress (8/100) register low. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (84/100). Structural exposure scores 45 and live distress 2 on the 0–100 scale.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 4.2% over the trailing year, at 28/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

Median household income is $160,586, above the U.S. median near $78,000. Around 0% of renters are cost-burdened. 87% of housing is owner-occupied. Educational attainment sits at 3% bachelor's-or-above. 8.1% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Population is roughly 382 with a median age of 37. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 17/100. The ZIP holds roughly 226 housing units. Vacancy runs 20.8%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. The typical home is worth about $133,500 (0.7× income, relatively affordable).

Net-net, 18242 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. No parcel file is published for 18242 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

No ZIP is too small to score: 18242 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 20/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 18242, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

Behind 18242's composite sit distinct signals (foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender and structural), each scored on its own before rolling up, so two ZIPs with the same total can describe very different situations on the ground. The point of the 18242 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.