ZIP 18518 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 18518 (Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania) at a low 22/100 for overall property distress. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (89/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (76/100). On the structural side it scores 50/100, with 2/100 of stress already active. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (50/100), construction/permit lag (33/100), institutional ownership (17/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (17/100) and mortgage stress (8/100) register low.

The market reads expansion — home values rose 6.8% year on year, and 12% higher over three years (phase confidence 46/100). Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

Roughly 7.4% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas. Around 35% of renters are cost-burdened. Households earn a median $73,258 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure. The tenure split is 71% owner-occupied to 29% rented. The ZIP holds roughly 3,959 housing units. On demographic stress specifically, 18518 scores 24/100. About 32% have a four-year degree. A median home runs $174,400 here, or 2.3 times local income. The vacancy rate is 5.0%. About 8,533 people live here, median age 47.

Net-net, 18518 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.