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

Island County, Washington is scored end-to-end by DLRadar for property distress, drawn only from deterministic public records. 8 ZIP codes are tracked county-wide, averaging 33/100 distress. On bank and credit headwind, Island County scores 22/100.

The peak-phase county posted home values that rose 0.4% over twelve months, a 16/100-confidence read. With values leveling off, blanket buying underperforms so screen ZIP by ZIP.

Near the cycle top at +0.4% YoY (16/100 confidence), the wins are surgical well beyond the county average. A contained 22/100 bank headwind puts the live signals on tax, code and ownership-change cases over REO.

The most-distressed ZIP codes in Island County are 98236 (33/100), 98239 (33/100), 98249 (33/100), 98253 (33/100), 98260 (33/100), 98277 (33/100), each with its own full DLRadar report. The breakdown continues through 98278, 98282 and more.

Profile-wise, Island County's scored ZIPs report incomes around $88,601, 21.5% of units sitting vacant, a 7.5% poverty rate, residents with a median age around 51.3, home values averaging roughly $646,871, above the US, 82% owner-occupancy. Income, equity and tenure like these drive both the distress on offer and the exit velocity.

All in at 33/100 over 8 ZIPs, Island County is a screen-by-ZIP market and not a county-wide play. A DLRadar subscription opens every Island County parcel: owner and contact detail, APN, a distress score plus a funding-to-closing path.

No county is too small to score: Island County, Washington runs through the same foreclosure, tax, lien and bank-stress model as every major metro, so Island County's numbers mean exactly what they mean anywhere else in Washington.

Scores in Island County, Washington exist to concentrate effort: a handful of ZIPs hold most of the distress, and the rest seldom justify the acquisition cost. The Island County figures are auditable line by line — county recorders and courts, FHFA price data, FDIC bank filings — with gaps left visible rather than filled by estimate.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Island County are 98236 (33/100), 98239 (33/100), 98249 (33/100), 98253 (33/100), 98260 (33/100), 98277 (33/100). DLRadar also scores 98278, 98282 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.

DLRadar's composite for Island County blends several independent signals — foreclosure and pre-foreclosure filings, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, and the bank-stress headwind of the lenders operating locally — into one 0–100 score per ZIP, so a market can rank high on one axis and low on another.