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

Across Lewis County, Washington, DLRadar grades every ZIP for foreclosure, mortgage, tax and bank-stress distress. The county's ZIP scores run from 28 up to 34/100. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 37/100 (moderate). Coverage runs to 24 ZIPs across Lewis County, a moderate 33/100 average.

The peak-phase county posted home values that rose 0.4% over twelve months (phase confidence 16/100). At this stage of the cycle, distress turns selective with opportunity concentrated by ZIP.

Lewis County's topped-out +0.4% YoY (16/100 confidence) means the discount lives in outliers so the headline market won't hand it over. Mid-range bank stress at 37/100 means both signal sets in play here.

The most-distressed ZIP codes in Lewis County are 98568 (34/100), 98336 (33/100), 98355 (33/100), 98356 (33/100), 98361 (33/100), 98377 (33/100), each with its own full DLRadar report. Further scored ZIPs: 98532, 98533, 98538, 98539, 98542, 98544, 98564, 98565, 98570, 98572.

Underneath the scores, Lewis County's scored ZIPs come in at typical home values near $378,517, 12.1% of households below the poverty line, 17.1% of units sitting vacant, residents with a median age around 46.7, 80% of homes owner-occupied, household income averaging about $74,491, roughly at the national median. These fundamentals drive who sells under pressure and how fast a deal moves.

With a moderate 33/100 reading over 24 ZIPs, the opportunity hides below the average and not a county-wide play. Inside DLRadar, each Lewis County property carries owner, mailing address, APN, a parcel-level score plus bank exposure and liquidity read.

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

The way to work Lewis County, Washington is top-down — start with the highest-scoring ZIPs (up to 34/100 here), then drill to the parcels driving those numbers, rather than blanketing Lewis County with undifferentiated outreach. All Lewis County inputs are public record — recorder, court, FHFA and FDIC — and the score is rebuilt on ingest rather than modelled forward.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Lewis County are 98568 (34/100), 98336 (33/100), 98355 (33/100), 98356 (33/100), 98361 (33/100), 98377 (33/100). DLRadar also scores 98532, 98533, 98538, 98539, 98542, 98544, 98564, 98565 and more 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.

Under Lewis County's headline composite sit distinct layers — recorded foreclosures, tax and lien delinquency, mortgage stress and bank headwind — each scored separately before they roll up, so the same total can describe very different markets.