ZIP 18618 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Luzerne County, Pennsylvania · High Vacancy market
Composite property distress in 18618 (Luzerne County, Pennsylvania) lands at 24/100 — low on DLRadar's public-record scoring. The split runs 55/100 structural to 4/100 active on the ground. The pressure is most legible in structural risk (55/100), construction/permit lag (50/100), institutional ownership (31/100). institutional ownership (31/100) and mortgage stress (14/100) stay muted. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: flood (NFIP) exposure (80/100), climate & FEMA risk (74/100).
The market reads expansion — home values rose 7.4% year on year, and 8% higher over three years, at 41/100 phase confidence. Even climbing markets leave specific parcels in distress; the scoring isolates them.
The ZIP holds roughly 2,086 housing units. Owners hold 85% of homes, renters 15%. Rent burden reaches 30% of tenant households. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 26/100. Vacancy runs 26.4%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. At $73,561, median income runs near typical U.S. levels. The typical home is worth about $244,300 (3.2× income, relatively affordable). About 38% have a four-year degree. Population is roughly 3,583 with a median age of 47. The poverty rate is 7.5%.
Net-net, 18618 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. 18618 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.
The 18618 read uses the identical public-record model applied coast to coast, which means its 24/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 18618 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. Where the public record is thin for 18618, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.
The 24/100 for 18618 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. In workflow terms, 18618 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.
Distress signal breakdown — ZIP 18618
Tax arrears, institutional buyers, insurance load, flood exposure, stalled construction, dislocated pricing and auction velocity — together with the 0 individual distressed properties — each with owner, address, APN, its own distress score and an exit read — are in the full report.
Snapshot: 18618 by the numbers
18618 live: composite distress, market phase, housing detail and lender pressure, identical to the per-property report.
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