ZIP 98274 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 98274 (Skagit County, Washington) at a moderate 35/100 for overall property distress. Structural exposure scores 80 and live distress 6 on the 0–100 scale. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — flood (NFIP) exposure (96/100), climate & FEMA risk (89/100), FEMA disaster exposure (64/100). Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (84/100), structural risk (80/100), institutional ownership (56/100). mortgage stress (21/100) stay muted.

Prices here sit in a neutral phase: values rose 3.6% over the trailing year, and 11% higher over three years, at 19/100 phase confidence. Even climbing markets leave specific parcels in distress; the scoring isolates them.

A median home runs $547,700 here, or 5.3 times local income. Vacancy runs 8.6%. 19,247 residents call 98274 home, typically aged 41. There are about 7,872 housing units across 98274. Rent burden reaches 47% of tenant households. On demographic stress specifically, 98274 scores 36/100. The tenure split is 77% owner-occupied to 23% rented. Households earn a median $93,762 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. About 33% have a four-year degree. Roughly 11.2% live below the poverty line.

Overall, 98274 shows a mixed profile — neither uniformly stressed nor insulated — so opportunity is property-specific. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.