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

Yakima County, WA, Washington: 22 ZIP codes scored, Yakima County, WA averaging 32/100 (moderate, Yakima, WA), from 25 to 33. Yakima County, WA is in its peak phase (Yakima, WA confidence 20/100): Yakima, WA home prices up 2.0% (Yakima, WA) over twelve months. Yakima County, WA lender headwind: 40/100.

Highest-scoring Yakima County, WA ZIPs: 98901 (33/100), 98902 (33/100), 98903 (33/100), 98908 (33/100), 98921 (33/100), 98923 (33/100). Also scored in Yakima County, WA: 98932, 98933, 98935, 98936, 98937, 98938, 98939, 98942, 98947, 98948.

Across Yakima County, WA's scored ZIPs: median home value $279,455, household income $68,336, 5.7% vacancy, 15.9% poverty, 64% owner-occupied, median age 34.1.

Yakima County, WA insurance distress 85/100 (#217 in the US); FEMA hazard 96/100 for Yakima, WA; 16 federal disaster declarations in Yakima County, WA since 2023 (4 flood); 6 Yakima, WA NFIP flood claims, $57K paid; Yakima, WA construction distress 45/100.

13 banks with 38 branches lend in Yakima County, WA; Yakima, WA weighted bank stress 60/100, highest 84/100 in Yakima, WA.

Yakima County, WA unemployment 5.5% (Yakima, WA -2.2 pts, six months); 664 new housing units permitted in Yakima County, WA over twelve months, Yakima, WA up 4% from 637; Yakima, WA home prices +7.4% a year (Yakima, WA) over three years.

92,432 housing units in Yakima County, WA; 32,577 Yakima, WA renter households; 41% of Yakima, WA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 20% (Yakima, WA) half or more.

Yakima County, WA ranks #1,809 nationally on the opportunity index (Yakima, WA, among all ranked counties); Yakima, WA scores 28.4/100 and Yakima, WA sits #21 inside Washington. Yakima, WA is in the early_signal opportunity phase; Yakima, WA's primary driver is bank institutional, Yakima, WA second driver construction; Yakima, WA moved up 122 places. 15 short-sale listings across Yakima, WA; 75 days on market observed in Yakima, WA; 5.3% vacancy over 22 Yakima, WA ZIPs.

1.1% of Yakima County, WA mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Yakima, WA's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 1.5% (CFPB county sample). Yakima, WA's ninety-day rate is up 0.4 points on twelve months earlier; the Yakima, WA peak since 2008 was 3.4% in January 2012; Washington overall reads 0.6%.

Yakima County, WA has 6 watched banks; 6 Yakima, WA banks sit in an elevated band. Yakima, WA footprints: Banner Bank (6 branches, stress 58) in Yakima, WA; Yakima Fs&La (4 branches, stress 32) in Yakima, WA; Heritage Bank (3 branches, stress 58) in Yakima, WA.

HUD lists 8 assisted multifamily properties in Yakima County, WA with 578 units; 351 Yakima, WA units are assisted, 4 Yakima, WA properties under project-based Section 8.

4,724 of the 92,432 housing units in Yakima, WA sit vacant. Yakima County, WA permitted 98 multifamily units in twelve months; Yakima, WA's one-to-four unit structures added 566 units in Yakima County, WA.