ZIP 98252 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

DLRadar grades ZIP 98252 (Snohomish County, Washington) at a moderate 35/100 for overall property distress. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (98/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (94/100), FEMA disaster exposure (78/100)). The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (77/100), institutional ownership (58/100), construction/permit lag (58/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (19/100). On the structural side it scores 77/100, with 6/100 of stress already active.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values held roughly flat over the trailing year, and 11% higher over three years, at 16/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

Population is roughly 10,487 with a median age of 38. Rent burden reaches 37% of tenant households. Vacancy runs 9.8%. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 34/100. The typical home is worth about $520,700 (5.2× income). Roughly 10.6% live below the poverty line. The ZIP holds roughly 4,193 housing units. Median household income is $95,235, above the U.S. median near $78,000. 84% of housing is owner-occupied. Educational attainment sits at 25% bachelor's-or-above.

Net-net, 98252 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. Parcel-level detail for 98252 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced.

The number is not local guesswork: 98252's 35/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. Where the record is thin for 98252, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.

98252's score blends several independent layers — foreclosure and mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, bank headwind and structural exposure — into one 0–100 number, so understanding the components matters as much as the headline for anyone screening the ZIP. For a buyer, 98252 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.