ZIP 98221 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Skagit County, Washington's ZIP 98221 registers 33/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: flood (NFIP) exposure (85/100), climate & FEMA risk (83/100). The most distinctive pressure shows up in construction/permit lag (84/100), structural risk (75/100), institutional ownership (51/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (20/100) register low. Structural risk reads 75/100 against active distress of 6/100.

The market reads peak — home values rose 3.6% year on year, and 14% higher over three years, at 18/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

Vacancy runs 14.7%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. There are about 12,433 housing units across 98221. The typical home is worth about $713,100 (7.1× income, severely stretched). The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 39/100. At $92,925, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. Rent burden reaches 38% of tenant households. About 23,211 people live here, median age 51. The poverty rate is 8.0%. 73% of housing is owner-occupied. Around 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher.

Net-net, 98221 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.