ZIP 18842 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania · High Vacancy market
ZIP 18842's composite property-distress score is 27/100 - DLRadar classes that as low for Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. The pressure is most legible in construction/permit lag (73/100), structural risk (61/100), institutional ownership (49/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (25/100). It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: flood (NFIP) exposure (72/100), FEMA disaster exposure (60/100). Structural exposure scores 61 and live distress 8 on the 0–100 scale.
The market reads expansion — home values rose 5.1% year on year, at 42/100 phase confidence. Even climbing markets leave specific parcels in distress; the scoring isolates them.
The tenure split is 79% owner-occupied to 21% rented. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 40/100. The poverty rate is 8.8%. The ZIP holds roughly 87 housing units. Around 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Vacancy runs 44.5%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. 170 residents call 18842 home, typically aged 33. Households earn a median $79,000 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure. The typical home is worth about $195,800 (2.4× income, relatively affordable).
Net-net, 18842 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.
The number is not local guesswork: 18842's 27/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. 18842 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.
18842's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. Practically, 18842 works as a screen — verify the reading, drill to the specific parcels driving it, and carry the deal through capital and closing on the platform.
What is driving ZIP 18842’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 18842 distress snapshot
Live ZIP-level distress, market-phase, housing and bank-pressure read — the same report attached to every property.
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