ZIP 98253 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Island County, Washington · High Vacancy market
ZIP 98253's composite property-distress score is 33/100 - DLRadar classes that as moderate for Island County, Washington. The pressure is most legible in construction/permit lag (84/100), structural risk (75/100), institutional ownership (54/100). mortgage stress (19/100) stay muted. The latent-versus-live split is 75/100 structural and 6/100 already moving. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — flood (NFIP) exposure (85/100), climate & FEMA risk (79/100), FEMA disaster exposure (65/100).
The peak-phase market in 98253 posted values that held roughly flat over the year, and 55% higher over three years, at 16/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.
About 56% have a four-year degree. The poverty rate is 9.9%. 2,141 residents call 98253 home, typically aged 64. Around 89% of renters are cost-burdened. Owners hold 91% of homes, renters 9%. There are about 1,785 housing units across 98253. Median household income is $73,393, near the U.S. median near $78,000. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 53/100. A median home runs $789,800 here, or 9.7 times local income. Vacancy runs 33.9%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal.
Net-net, 98253 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. 98253 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.
Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 98253's 33/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Island County, Washington or any ZIP coast to coast. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 98253 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.
Behind 98253's composite sit distinct signals (foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender and structural), each scored on its own before rolling up, so two ZIPs with the same total can describe very different situations on the ground. For a buyer, 98253 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.
ZIP 98253 distress signals, scored
Delinquent tax, institutional holdings, insurance strain, flood/NFIP exposure, build-out lag, price dislocation and auction pace — along with the 0 individual distressed properties (owner, address, APN, per-property score and exit read) are in the full DLRadar report.
The 98253 distress snapshot
Real-time distress, cycle phase, housing and bank-stress readings for 98253, the same set carried on every parcel.
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