ZIP 98279 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

DLRadar grades ZIP 98279 (San Juan County, Washington) at a minimal 9/100 for overall property distress. Structurally it carries 19/100, against 4/100 of stress already in motion. Its standout signals are construction/permit lag (20/100), institutional ownership (19/100), structural risk (19/100). structural risk (19/100) and mortgage stress (14/100) stay muted.

The peak-phase market in 98279 posted values that rose 1.2% over the year, at 20/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

On demographic stress specifically, 98279 scores 58/100. The poverty rate is 26.9% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. Rent burden reaches 61% of tenant households. About 51% have a four-year degree. Median household income is $78,750, near the U.S. median near $78,000. About 650 people live here, median age 55. The tenure split is 66% owner-occupied to 34% rented. The ZIP holds roughly 759 housing units. Home values center near $937,500, an affordability ratio of 10.4× — stretched. Vacancy runs 55.4%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal.

Taken together, 98279 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. There is no property file for 98279 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable public records.

The 98279 read uses the identical public-record model applied coast to coast, which means its 9/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 98279 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of San Juan County, Washington. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 98279, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

98279'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, 98279 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.