ZIP 19609 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Berks County, Pennsylvania's ZIP 19609 registers 20/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (45/100), institutional ownership (20/100), mortgage stress (8/100). institutional ownership (20/100) and mortgage stress (8/100) stay muted. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (92/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (91/100). The latent-versus-live split is 45/100 structural and 2/100 already moving.

Prices here sit in a expansion phase: values rose 8.4% over the trailing year, and 23% higher over three years (phase confidence 63/100). Even climbing markets leave specific parcels in distress; the scoring isolates them.

Around 60% of renters are cost-burdened. The poverty rate is 8.1%. At $80,748, median income runs near typical U.S. levels. 10,003 residents call 19609 home, typically aged 39. The typical home is worth about $247,300 (2.8× income, relatively affordable). Around 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The vacancy rate is 4.8%. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 28/100. 83% of housing is owner-occupied. The ZIP holds roughly 4,207 housing units.

On balance, 19609 reads as a higher-equity, stable market where distress is selective and worth pinpointing parcel by parcel. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.