ZIP 97857 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Wallowa County, Oregon's ZIP 97857 registers 5/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as minimal. The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (10/100), mortgage stress (5/100), institutional ownership (3/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (5/100) and institutional ownership (3/100) register low. Structural exposure scores 10 and live distress 2 on the 0–100 scale.

The market reads peak — home values rose 3.3% year on year, at 24/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

Vacancy runs 13.3%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 42/100. About 597 people live here, median age 48. 83% of housing is owner-occupied. At $62,321, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. There are about 228 housing units across 97857. The typical home is worth about $562,500 (8.6× income, severely stretched). Rent burden reaches 28% of tenant households. Around 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The poverty rate is 8.2%.

Net-net, 97857 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.