ZIP 19550 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Berks County, Pennsylvania's ZIP 19550 registers 20/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (92/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (91/100). The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (45/100), institutional ownership (20/100), mortgage stress (8/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (20/100) and mortgage stress (8/100) register low. Structural exposure scores 45 and live distress 2 on the 0–100 scale.

The market reads expansion — home values rose 8.4% year on year, at 63/100 phase confidence. Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

Owners hold 60% of homes, renters 40%. Rent burden reaches 11% of tenant households. Vacancy runs 9.8%. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 37/100. There are about 160 housing units across 19550. 52.7% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Home values center near $212,500. Median household income is $55,272, below the U.S. median near $78,000. About 583 people live here, median age 36. Educational attainment sits at 13% bachelor's-or-above.

Net-net, 19550 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.