ZIP 97842 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Composite property distress in 97842 (Wallowa County, Oregon) lands at 5/100 — minimal on DLRadar's distress scoring. What sets it apart are the readings on structural risk (10/100), institutional ownership (3/100). structural risk (10/100) and institutional ownership (3/100) stay muted. Latent structural risk is 10/100 while live distress already moving reads 0/100.

The recovery-phase market in 97842 posted values that rose 2.5% over the year (phase confidence 29/100). Even climbing markets leave specific parcels in distress; the scoring isolates them.

85 residents call 97842 home, typically aged 66. The typical home is worth about $386,700. Vacancy runs 43.2%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. About 25% have a four-year degree. 31.8% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Owners hold 89% of homes, renters 11%. The ZIP holds roughly 140 housing units. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 64/100.

On the whole, 97842 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. 97842 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

No ZIP is too small to score: 97842 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 5/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Where the record is thin for 97842, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.

Behind 97842'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 a buyer, 97842 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.