1288 N Mountain Rd

Site & surroundings

Physical conditions that affect value and rarely appear on a listing.

• Sloped ground — about 31.3% grade

  Steep. Expect engineered foundations and a graded access drive, and check the county's septic percolation rule before assuming anything can be built here.

• US 220472 ft from parcel centre

  Constant road noise from an arterial route. Frontage cuts residential appeal and can raise commercial appeal; which one depends on zoning.

• Lehigh Railway538 ft from parcel centre

  Active freight track. Noise, vibration and horn use at crossings — check where the nearest crossing is before assuming quiet.

• Runway1.1 mi from parcel centre

  Approach paths extend far beyond the runway itself — check which end the parcel is under.

Context

• Susquehanna River0.2 mi from parcel centre

  Frontage or flood exposure depending on elevation and zone — read this next to the FEMA signal, not on its own.

• 6% of homes vacant year-round in Census Tract 9508

  99 of 1,682 units vacant year-round, around or below the national tract average. A further 155 unit(s) are vacant seasonally — second homes rather than distress — so a headline vacancy rate quoted elsewhere for this tract will read 15%.

• Tract median home value $207,300

  Self-reported median across the whole tract — context for whether a number is plausible, not a comparable and never a bid input.

• Median household income $71,518

  Tract median household income. Sets what a local buyer can finance.

• Elevation 790 ft

  Ground elevation at the parcel. Compare with the FEMA base flood elevation where one is published.

• FEMA flood zone X

  Outside the 1% annual chance floodplain.

• Road access — North Mountain Road20 ft from parcel centre

  A mapped public road runs along or beside the parcel.

• 84% owner-occupied

  Owner-occupied majority, which usually means a retail resale is possible.

© OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Flood zones from FEMA, elevation from USGS, tract statistics from the US Census. Proximity is measured from the parcel’s recorded location, which for most parcels is an assessor centroid rather than a boundary — treat these as figures to verify on a site visit, not as survey distances.