ZIP 97830 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Composite property distress in 97830 (Wheeler County, Oregon) lands at 10/100 — minimal on DLRadar's distress scoring. Property-level stress concentrates in institutional ownership (47/100), structural risk (20/100), mortgage stress (19/100). On the quiet end sit structural risk (20/100) and mortgage stress (19/100). It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (86/100). Structural exposure scores 20 and live distress 6 on the 0–100 scale.

Prices here sit in a recovery phase: values rose 2.5% over the trailing year, at 29/100 phase confidence. Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.

Median household income is $43,750, below the U.S. median near $78,000. Roughly 11.1% live below the poverty line. Around 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. About 621 people live here, median age 61. The vacancy rate is 24.4% — elevated. A median home runs $250,000 here, or 4.3 times local income. Rent burden reaches 42% of tenant households. On demographic stress specifically, 97830 scores 34/100. Owners hold 77% of homes, renters 23%. The ZIP holds roughly 437 housing units.

Taken together, 97830 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. 97830 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

The 97830 read uses the identical scoring model applied coast to coast, which means its 10/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 97830 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Wheeler County, Oregon. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 97830, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

The 10/100 figure for 97830 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. Treat 97830 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.