ZIP 18248 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 18248 (Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania) at a low 20/100 for overall property distress. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (44/100), construction/permit lag (28/100), institutional ownership (14/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (14/100) and mortgage stress (8/100) register low. The latent-versus-live split is 44/100 structural and 2/100 already moving. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (84/100).

The market reads expansion — home values rose 5.5% year on year (phase confidence 32/100). Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

Households earn a median $57,778 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Roughly 52.4% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. About 37% have a four-year degree. Around 100% of renters are cost-burdened. A median home runs $157,300 here, or 1.9 times local income. On demographic stress specifically, 18248 scores 40/100. The vacancy rate is 5.5%. The tenure split is 87% owner-occupied to 13% rented. The ZIP holds roughly 209 housing units. About 516 people live here, median age 39.

Net-net, 18248 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.