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

Every ZIP in Kittitas County, Washington carries a DLRadar distress score assembled from foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender records. Individual Kittitas County ZIPs score between 30 and 37 on the 0–100 composite. Lender pressure in Kittitas County registers 39/100 — a moderate bank-stress headwind. Coverage runs to 12 ZIPs across Kittitas County, a moderate 32/100 average.

Currently peak, Kittitas County saw prices rise 0.4% year over year, at 16/100 phase confidence. With values leveling off, the opportunity narrows leaving the wins in individual deals.

At +0.4% YoY and 16/100 confidence, selectivity rules and a county-wide sweep stays on the shelf. Mid-range bank stress at 39/100 implies a blend the ZIP scores sort out.

Leading Kittitas County on distress: 98828 (37/100), 98901 (34/100), 98922 (32/100), 98925 (32/100), 98926 (32/100), 98934 (32/100). Other tracked Kittitas County ZIPs include 98940, 98941, 98943, 98946, 98950, 98068.

Underneath the scores, Kittitas County's scored ZIPs come in at typical home values near $524,109, 72% of homes owner-occupied, a 34.6% vacancy rate, a median age of 44.5, poverty running near 13.5%, incomes around $64,939. Numbers like these frame how much distress reaches the market and how fast it moves.

All in at 32/100 over 12 ZIPs, Kittitas County rewards parcel-by-parcel work rather than a blanket buy. Inside DLRadar, each Kittitas County property carries owner, APN and address, a distress score plus a funding-to-closing path.

Because Kittitas County, Washington is scored on the identical public-record model used nationwide, even a quiet county is measured on one scale — letting you weigh Kittitas County against neighboring markets or the rest of Washington on equal footing.

Treat Kittitas County, Washington as a ranked list, not a single market: the spread between its strongest and weakest ZIPs is where the acquisition margin actually sits. All of it is deterministic and auditable: Kittitas County's numbers come from county recorders, the courts, FHFA and FDIC, with nothing interpolated or guessed when a source is sparse.

Drilling in, Kittitas County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 98828 (37/100), 98901 (34/100), 98922 (32/100), 98925 (32/100), 98926 (32/100), 98934 (32/100). DLRadar also scores 98940, 98941, 98943, 98946, 98950, 98068 across the county. Every one of these is scored independently — a ZIP's composite reflects its own recorded distress, which is why the county average alone hides where the real pressure sits.

The Kittitas 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.