ZIP 18244 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Carbon County, Pennsylvania · High Vacancy market
DLRadar grades ZIP 18244 (Carbon County, Pennsylvania) at a low 18/100 for overall property distress. The sharpest non-environmental signals are construction/permit lag (42/100), structural risk (42/100), institutional ownership (16/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (16/100) and mortgage stress (10/100) register low. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — flood (NFIP) exposure (69/100), climate & FEMA risk (61/100). Latent structural risk is 42/100 while live distress already moving reads 3/100.
Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 4.7% over the trailing year (phase confidence 30/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.
Median household income is $66,667, below the U.S. median near $78,000. Owners hold 80% of homes, renters 20%. Roughly 5.4% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas. On demographic stress specifically, 18244 scores 28/100. Around 33% of renters are cost-burdened. The ZIP holds roughly 187 housing units. Educational attainment sits at 9% bachelor's-or-above. About 314 people live here, median age 44. A median home runs $168,800 here, or 2.5 times local income. Vacancy runs 27.9%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal.
Taken together, 18244 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. Parcel-level detail for 18244 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced to public records.
The number is not local guesswork: 18244'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 18244 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.
Behind 18244'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. In workflow terms, 18244 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.
What is driving ZIP 18244’s distress
Tax delinquency, institutional ownership, insurance pressure, NFIP/flood, construction lag, price dislocation and auction velocity — plus the 0 individual distressed properties — each with owner, address, APN, its own distress score and an exit read — are in the full report.
The 18244 distress snapshot
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