ZIP 98235 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Skagit County, Washington's ZIP 98235 registers 35/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. The most distinctive pressure shows up in construction/permit lag (84/100), structural risk (80/100), institutional ownership (56/100). mortgage stress (21/100) stay muted. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — flood (NFIP) exposure (96/100), climate & FEMA risk (89/100), FEMA disaster exposure (64/100). On the structural side it scores 80/100, with 6/100 of stress already active.

Prices here sit in a neutral phase: values rose 3.6% over the trailing year (phase confidence 19/100). Even climbing markets leave specific parcels in distress; the scoring isolates them.

Roughly 32.9% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. The ZIP holds roughly 205 housing units. Households earn a median $60,082 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Around 37% of renters are cost-burdened. About 13% have a four-year degree. The vacancy rate is 0.0%. On demographic stress specifically, 98235 scores 51/100. A median home runs $518,900 here, or 8.4 times local income. 515 residents call 98235 home, typically aged 29. The tenure split is 55% owner-occupied to 45% rented.

Taken together, 98235 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.