ZIP 18471 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania · High Vacancy market
On DLRadar's 0-100 distress scale, ZIP 18471 in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania comes in at 25, a low composite-distress reading. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (89/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (77/100)). On the structural side it scores 57/100, with 2/100 of stress already active. Its heaviest discrete signals: construction/permit lag (62/100), structural risk (57/100), institutional ownership (17/100). institutional ownership (17/100) and mortgage stress (8/100) stay muted.
The expansion-phase market in 18471 posted values that rose 7.4% over the year, at 41/100 phase confidence. Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.
Households earn a median $121,136 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. The vacancy rate is 15.3% — elevated. The poverty rate is 4.0% — low. About 527 people live here, median age 51. Rent burden reaches 0% of tenant households. The ZIP holds roughly 293 housing units. Educational attainment sits at 75% bachelor's-or-above. Owners hold 98% of homes, renters 2%. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 13/100. The typical home is worth about $391,100 (2.5× income, relatively affordable).
Taken together, 18471 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.
Big metro or rural, 18471 runs through one identical scoring model, so its 25/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania and the nation. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 18471, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.
18471's score blends several independent layers — foreclosure and mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, bank headwind and structural exposure — into one 0–100 number, so understanding the components matters as much as the headline for anyone screening the ZIP. For an operator, 18471 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.
What is driving ZIP 18471’s distress
Delinquency on tax, investor concentration, insurance pressure, NFIP flood, lagging construction, price dislocation and sale velocity — and the 0 individual distressed properties carry owner, address, APN, a parcel-level score and an exit read in the full DLRadar file.
The 18471 distress snapshot
Current distress, phase, housing and lender-pressure figures for 18471, drawn from the same report attached to each property.
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