ZIP 97209 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Multnomah County, Oregon · Distress market
On DLRadar's 0-100 distress scale, ZIP 97209 in Multnomah County, Oregon comes in at 29, a low composite-distress reading. The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (64/100), institutional ownership (42/100), construction/permit lag (41/100). mortgage stress (11/100) stay muted. On the structural side it scores 64/100, with 3/100 of stress already active. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (99/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (71/100).
Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 1.0% over the trailing year (phase confidence 11/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.
Roughly 17.9% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. Owners hold 22% of homes, renters 78%. Median household income is $84,059, near the U.S. median near $78,000. About 66% have a four-year degree. Rent burden reaches 38% of tenant households. Population is roughly 21,727 with a median age of 37. The vacancy rate is 10.6%. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 42/100. There are about 16,733 housing units across 97209. A median home runs $587,300 here, or 6.8 times local income.
Overall, 97209 shows a mixed profile — neither uniformly stressed nor insulated — so opportunity is property-specific. Parcel-level detail for 97209 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced.
Whether 97209 runs hot or quiet, its 29/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 97209 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Multnomah County, Oregon or nationwide. 97209 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.
The 29/100 figure for 97209 is a composite, not one metric: it rolls up foreclosure and pre-foreclosure activity, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, local lender headwind, and structural risk into a single reading, which is why a ZIP can look calm on price yet score high on distress. In workflow terms, 97209 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.
What is driving ZIP 97209’s distress
Unpaid tax, corporate ownership share, insurance cost pressure, NFIP flood risk, construction slowdown, price gaps and auction turnover — plus the 0 individual distressed properties are broken out by owner, address, APN, per-property score and exit read inside DLRadar.
Snapshot: 97209 by the numbers
Real-time distress, cycle phase, housing and bank-stress readings for 97209, the same set carried on every parcel.
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Open the complete 97209 acquisition file
The full 97209 file lists each distressed parcel with owner, address, APN, per-property score, bank exposure and exit-velocity read, and carries it straight through to owner and lender records. Refreshed continuously.
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