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

For Mason County, Washington, DLRadar turns county and parcel public records into a single distress score per ZIP. The county spans 15 scored ZIP codes, averaging 30/100 composite distress. Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 22 to 34 out of 100. Bank/credit headwind for the county is 62 on a 0–100 scale, a elevated reading.

The county market is in a peak phase: home prices rose 0.4% over the past year, a 16/100-confidence read. With pricing topped out, distress turns selective — the edge is parcel by parcel.

Near the cycle top at +0.4% YoY (16/100 confidence), the wins are surgical so the headline market won't hand it over. Bank stress at 62/100 favors patient capital: short sales and foreclosures accelerate.

Top distress by ZIP runs 98557 (34/100), 98563 (34/100), 98541 (33/100), 98524 (31/100), 98528 (31/100), 98546 (31/100), listed with every scored ZIP below. The breakdown continues through 98548, 98555, 98560, 98584, 98588, 98592, 98502, 98380, 98312 and more.

Underneath the scores, the Mason County ZIPs on file report vacancy near 24.9%, household income averaging about $82,727, roughly at the national median, median home values around $449,380 (above the national figure), residents with a median age around 48.6, 82% owner-occupancy, 10.7% of households below the poverty line. Numbers like these frame who is forced to sell and how readily the market absorbs it.

With a moderate 30/100 reading over 15 ZIPs, the opportunity hides below the average where the ZIP scores point. Unlock Mason County to see every parcel's owner, address and APN, a per-parcel score, lender exposure and exit read.

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

For anyone buying in Mason County, the scores answer one question first — which ZIPs deserve the marketing budget, with the top reading 34/100. The Mason 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.

Drilling in, Mason County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 98557 (34/100), 98563 (34/100), 98541 (33/100), 98524 (31/100), 98528 (31/100), 98546 (31/100). DLRadar also scores 98548, 98555, 98560, 98584, 98588, 98592, 98502, 98380 and more 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 Mason 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.