ZIP 97906 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

DLRadar grades ZIP 97906 (Malheur County, Oregon) at a low 21/100 for overall property distress. The pressure is most legible in construction/permit lag (48/100), structural risk (48/100), institutional ownership (44/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (19/100). The split runs 48/100 structural to 6/100 active on the ground. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — flood (NFIP) exposure (73/100).

The peak-phase market in 97906 posted values that rose 1.2% over the year, at 9/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

Median household income is $51,250, below the U.S. median near $78,000. Population is roughly 286 with a median age of 37. Owners hold 80% of homes, renters 20%. Rent burden reaches 0% of tenant households. On demographic stress specifically, 97906 scores 31/100. The typical home is worth about $295,800 (5.6× income). About 9% have a four-year degree. Vacancy runs 17.7%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. The poverty rate is 4.9% — low. The ZIP holds roughly 165 housing units.

Net-net, 97906 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. There is no property file for 97906 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable records.

Big metro or rural, 97906 runs through one identical scoring model, so its 21/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Malheur County, Oregon and the nation. 97906 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.

The 21/100 figure for 97906 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, 97906 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.