ZIP 97037 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Wasco County, Oregon's ZIP 97037 registers 26/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — FEMA disaster exposure (81/100), climate & FEMA risk (70/100). The most distinctive pressure shows up in construction/permit lag (69/100), structural risk (55/100), institutional ownership (45/100). mortgage stress (18/100) stay muted. Structural risk reads 55/100 against active distress of 6/100.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.0% over the trailing year, and 48% higher over three years, at 18/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

The tenure split is 67% owner-occupied to 33% rented. A median home runs $342,100 here, or 4.7 times local income. Vacancy runs 37.3%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Roughly 10.8% live below the poverty line. 857 residents call 97037 home, typically aged 55. Households earn a median $62,422 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Rent burden reaches 45% of tenant households. About 34% have a four-year degree. There are about 585 housing units across 97037. On demographic stress specifically, 97037 scores 37/100.

Taken together, 97037 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.