ZIP 18252 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Scored on a fixed 0-100 scale, 18252 (Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania) returns a low composite of 20/100. On the structural side it scores 45/100, with 2/100 of stress already active. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (84/100). Leading the profile are structural risk (45/100), construction/permit lag (35/100), institutional ownership (13/100). institutional ownership (13/100) and mortgage stress (8/100) stay muted.

The peak-phase market in 18252 posted values that rose 4.2% over the year, and 19% higher over three years, at 28/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

Population is roughly 11,065 with a median age of 43. 69% of housing is owner-occupied. The typical home is worth about $156,300 (2.5× income, relatively affordable). About 20% have a four-year degree. The ZIP holds roughly 4,938 housing units. The vacancy rate is 12.4% — elevated. 18.9% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Households earn a median $61,020 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 31/100. Around 45% of renters are cost-burdened.

On the whole, 18252 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. 18252 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

No ZIP is too small to score: 18252 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. Where the record is thin for 18252, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.

The 20/100 figure for 18252 is a composite, not one metric: it rolls up foreclosure and pre-foreclosure activity, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, local lender headwind, and structural risk into a single reading, which is why a ZIP can look calm on price yet score high on distress. For a buyer, 18252 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.