ZIP 18617 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Luzerne County, Pennsylvania · High Vacancy market
Luzerne County, Pennsylvania's ZIP 18617 registers 25/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (91/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (85/100). Latent structural risk is 57/100 while live distress already moving reads 3/100. Its heaviest discrete signals: structural risk (57/100), construction/permit lag (53/100), institutional ownership (19/100). institutional ownership (19/100) and mortgage stress (9/100) stay muted.
The expansion-phase market in 18617 posted values that rose 7.4% over the year (phase confidence 41/100). Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.
Median household income is $35,357, below the U.S. median near $78,000. Roughly 16.0% live below the poverty line. About 1,616 people live here, median age 39. About 18% have a four-year degree. Vacancy runs 15.3%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. 55% of housing is owner-occupied. Rent burden reaches 65% of tenant households. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 34/100. Home values center near $83,400, an affordability ratio of 2.4× — accessible. The ZIP holds roughly 1,008 housing units.
Net-net, 18617 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. There is no property file for 18617 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable public records.
The number is not local guesswork: 18617's 25/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. 18617 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.
18617'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 a buyer, 18617 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.
What is driving ZIP 18617’s distress
Delinquency on tax, investor concentration, insurance pressure, NFIP flood, lagging construction, price dislocation and sale velocity — and the 0 individual distressed properties come with owner, address, APN, an individual score and an exit read in the complete report.
The 18617 distress snapshot
Current distress, phase, housing and lender-pressure figures for 18617, drawn from the same report attached to each property.
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