ZIP 97601 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP 97601's composite property-distress score is 25/100 - DLRadar classes that as low for Klamath County, Oregon. The most distinctive pressure shows up in construction/permit lag (62/100), structural risk (53/100), institutional ownership (39/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (39/100) and mortgage stress (14/100) register low. The split runs 53/100 structural to 4/100 active on the ground. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (76/100), FEMA disaster exposure (71/100).

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 1.2% over the trailing year, and 6% higher over three years (phase confidence 9/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

62% of housing is owner-occupied. Rent burden reaches 49% of tenant households. Median household income is $53,333, below the U.S. median near $78,000. The typical home is worth about $295,300 (5.0× income). About 24% have a four-year degree. About 22,751 people live here, median age 40. 22.0% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Vacancy runs 12.0%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 40/100. The ZIP holds roughly 11,073 housing units.

On the whole, 97601 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. No parcel file is published for 97601 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

Big metro or rural, 97601 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 25/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Klamath County, Oregon and the nation. Where the public record is thin for 97601, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.

Behind 97601's composite sit distinct signals (foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender and structural), each scored on its own before rolling up, so two ZIPs with the same total can describe very different situations on the ground. For an operator, 97601 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.