ZIP 19608 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Berks County, Pennsylvania · Distress market
ZIP 19608's composite property-distress score is 20/100 - DLRadar classes that as low for Berks County, Pennsylvania. Structural exposure scores 45 and live distress 2 on the 0–100 scale. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (92/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (91/100). The sharpest non-environmental signals are 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.
Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 4.4% over the trailing year, and 21% higher over three years, at 28/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.
The vacancy rate is 3.1%. Rent burden reaches 50% of tenant households. 23,986 residents call 19608 home, typically aged 44. Roughly 5.2% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas. The tenure split is 79% owner-occupied to 21% rented. There are about 9,427 housing units across 19608. The typical home is worth about $332,400 (2.8× income, relatively affordable). About 46% have a four-year degree. Households earn a median $112,169 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 25/100.
Overall 19608 looks resilient on the surface, so the edge is isolating individual stressed parcels. There is no property file for 19608 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable records.
Big metro or rural, 19608 runs through one identical scoring model, so its 20/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Berks County, Pennsylvania and the nation. 19608 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.
Each component behind 19608 - foreclosure, mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, lender pullback, structural exposure - is graded on its own before the 20/100 roll-up. The point of the 19608 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.
Signal-by-signal read on 19608
Delinquent tax, institutional holdings, insurance strain, flood/NFIP exposure, build-out lag, price dislocation and auction pace — along with the 0 individual distressed properties carry owner, address, APN, a parcel-level score and an exit read in the full DLRadar file.
Snapshot: 19608 by the numbers
A live read on 19608: distress, market phase, housing and bank pressure — identical to the report behind every parcel.
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