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

Skagit County, WA, Washington: 17 ZIP codes scored, Skagit County, WA averaging 33/100 (moderate, Skagit, WA), from 30 to 34. Skagit County, WA is in its peak phase (Skagit, WA confidence 25/100): Skagit, WA home prices up 2.1% (Skagit, WA) over twelve months. Skagit County, WA lender headwind: 17/100.

Highest-scoring Skagit County, WA ZIPs: 98229 (34/100), 98241 (34/100), 98283 (34/100), 98292 (34/100), 98232 (33/100), 98233 (33/100). Also scored in Skagit County, WA: 98235, 98237, 98238, 98255, 98257, 98263, 98267, 98273, 98274, 98284.

Across Skagit County, WA's scored ZIPs: median home value $498,331, household income $87,578, 11.7% vacancy, 12.9% poverty, 71% owner-occupied, median age 43.3.

Skagit County, WA insurance distress 89/100 (#157 in the US); FEMA hazard 84/100 for Skagit, WA; 9 federal disaster declarations in Skagit County, WA since 2023 (6 flood); 126 Skagit, WA NFIP flood claims, $7.9M paid; Skagit, WA construction distress 51/100.

12 banks with 30 branches lend in Skagit County, WA; Skagit, WA weighted bank stress 63/100, highest 71/100 in Skagit, WA.

Skagit County, WA unemployment 4.8% (Skagit, WA -0.8 pts, six months); 377 new housing units permitted in Skagit County, WA over twelve months, Skagit, WA up 0% from 376; Skagit, WA home prices +8.7% a year (Skagit, WA) over three years.

57,050 housing units in Skagit County, WA; 15,124 Skagit, WA renter households; 49% of Skagit, WA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 23% (Skagit, WA) half or more.

Skagit County, WA ranks #834 nationally on the opportunity index (Skagit, WA, among all ranked counties); Skagit, WA scores 31.8/100 and Skagit, WA sits #10 inside Washington. Skagit, WA is in the watchlist opportunity phase; Skagit, WA's primary driver is bank institutional, Skagit, WA second driver construction; Skagit, WA moved down 24 places. 27 short-sale listings across Skagit, WA; 75 days on market observed in Skagit, WA; 8.7% vacancy over 17 Skagit, WA ZIPs.

1.1% of Skagit County, WA mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Skagit, WA's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 1.2% (CFPB county sample). Skagit, WA's ninety-day rate is up 0.5 points on twelve months earlier; the Skagit, WA peak since 2008 was 4.8% in March 2010; Washington overall reads 0.6%.

Skagit County, WA has 6 watched banks; 6 Skagit, WA banks sit in an elevated band. Skagit, WA footprints: Banner Bank (5 branches, stress 58) in Skagit, WA; Wafd Bank (4 branches, stress 67) in Skagit, WA; Peoples Bank (4 branches, stress 60) in Skagit, WA.

HUD lists 1 assisted multifamily property in Skagit County, WA with 36 units; 35 Skagit, WA units are assisted, 1 Skagit, WA properties under project-based Section 8.

4,721 of the 57,050 housing units in Skagit, WA sit vacant. Skagit County, WA permitted 226 multifamily units in twelve months; Skagit, WA's one-to-four unit structures added 151 units in Skagit County, WA.