ZIP 19601 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Berks County, Pennsylvania · High Poverty market
ZIP 19601's composite property-distress score is 20/100 - DLRadar classes that as low for Berks County, Pennsylvania. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (92/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (91/100)). On the structural side it scores 45/100, with 2/100 of stress already active. The pressure is most legible in structural risk (45/100), institutional ownership (20/100), mortgage stress (8/100). On the quiet end sit institutional ownership (20/100) and mortgage stress (8/100).
The peak-phase market in 19601 posted values that rose 4.4% over the year, and 35% higher over three years, at 28/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.
The ZIP holds roughly 14,003 housing units. Roughly 29.8% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. On demographic stress specifically, 19601 scores 38/100. 36,493 residents call 19601 home, typically aged 32. Rent burden reaches 46% of tenant households. The typical home is worth about $123,100 (2.7× income, relatively affordable). Around 12% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Owners hold 37% of homes, renters 63%. At $41,133, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. The vacancy rate is 8.8%.
Taken together, 19601 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. There is no property file for 19601 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable records.
Whether 19601 runs hot or quiet, its 20/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 19601 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Berks County, Pennsylvania or nationwide. 19601 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.
Behind 19601's composite sit distinct signals (foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender and structural), each scored on its own before rolling up, so two ZIPs with the same total can describe very different situations on the ground. For an operator, 19601 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.
Signal-by-signal read on 19601
Tax-delinquent parcels, institutional ownership, insurance strain, flood risk, construction lag, price dislocation and auction speed — plus the 0 individual distressed properties — each with owner, address, APN, its own distress score and an exit read — are in the full report.
ZIP 19601 Stress Report snapshot
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