ZIP 97239 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Multnomah County, Oregon · High Value market
DLRadar grades ZIP 97239 (Multnomah County, Oregon) at a low 29/100 for overall property distress. The latent-versus-live split is 64/100 structural and 3/100 already moving. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (99/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (71/100). What sets it apart are the readings on structural risk (64/100), institutional ownership (42/100), construction/permit lag (41/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (11/100) register low.
The market reads peak — home values rose 1.0% year on year, and 2% lower over three years, at 11/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.
18,224 residents call 97239 home, typically aged 39. A median home runs $772,700 here, or 6.5 times local income. Rent burden reaches 34% of tenant households. The tenure split is 45% owner-occupied to 55% rented. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 35/100. The ZIP holds roughly 9,886 housing units. The vacancy rate is 5.5%. The poverty rate is 9.2%. Households earn a median $108,795 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. Around 74% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher.
Overall, 97239 shows a mixed profile — neither uniformly stressed nor insulated — so opportunity is property-specific. While 97239 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.
No ZIP is too small to score: 97239 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 29/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Where the record is thin for 97239, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.
The 29/100 figure for 97239 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. For a buyer, 97239 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.
Signal-by-signal read on 97239
Delinquency on tax, investor concentration, insurance pressure, NFIP flood, lagging construction, price dislocation and sale velocity — and the 0 individual distressed properties carry owner, address, APN, a parcel-level score and an exit read in the full DLRadar file.
Snapshot: 97239 by the numbers
A live read on 97239: distress, market phase, housing and bank pressure — identical to the report behind every parcel.
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