Cowlitz County, WA: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Cowlitz County, Washington sits inside DLRadar's nationwide distress index, built entirely from public records. On bank and credit headwind, Cowlitz County scores 44/100. The county's ZIP scores run from 23 up to 33/100. The county spans 12 scored ZIP codes, averaging 32/100 composite distress.

The peak-phase county posted home values that rose 2.4% over twelve months, at 22/100 phase confidence. At this stage of the cycle, the opportunity narrows — the edge is parcel by parcel.

At +2.4% YoY and 22/100 confidence, the wins are surgical so the headline market won't hand it over. A mid-cycle 44/100 lender reading means both signal sets in play here.

Highest scores land in 98581 (33/100), 98603 (33/100), 98609 (33/100), 98611 (33/100), 98625 (33/100), 98626 (33/100); each opens to a full parcel breakdown. The breakdown continues through 98632, 98645, 98649, 98674, 98601, 98616 and more.

Demographically, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Cowlitz County show 16.5% of units sitting vacant, a 11.4% poverty rate, 80% owner-occupancy, typical home values near $434,030, a median household income near $76,565 (near the US norm), a median age of 48.9. Numbers like these shape who is forced to sell and how readily the market absorbs it.

With a moderate 32/100 reading over 12 ZIPs, the edge is selective acquisition rather than a blanket buy. Subscribers get each Cowlitz County parcel's owner and contact detail, APN, a distress score and bank-exposure read.

The distress read for Cowlitz County, Washington is refreshed as new public records post and uses the same methodology coast to coast, so Cowlitz County stays directly comparable to any other market you track.

Cowlitz County, Washington is best worked from the top of the score down; blanket outreach across Cowlitz County dilutes effort that the ZIP-level numbers would have focused. The Cowlitz County read is rebuilt from public records as they post — no modeling fills the gaps — so what you see is what the documents support, refreshed on each ingest.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Cowlitz County are 98581 (33/100), 98603 (33/100), 98609 (33/100), 98611 (33/100), 98625 (33/100), 98626 (33/100). DLRadar also scores 98632, 98645, 98649, 98674, 98601, 98616 across the county. Each code carries its own composite built from that ZIP's foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien and lender signals, so two neighboring ZIPs can diverge sharply even inside one county.

The Cowlitz County score is not a single measure but a composite: foreclosure activity, mortgage and tax-lien stress, and local lender headwind each feed it, which is why understanding the components matters as much as the headline number.