ZIP 98294 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

DLRadar grades ZIP 98294 (Snohomish County, Washington) at a moderate 34/100 for overall property distress. Latent structural risk is 75/100 while live distress already moving reads 6/100. The pressure is most legible in structural risk (75/100), institutional ownership (59/100), construction/permit lag (52/100). mortgage stress (19/100) stay muted. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (98/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (93/100), FEMA disaster exposure (71/100)).

The market reads peak — home values held roughly flat year on year, and 12% higher over three years (phase confidence 16/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

Home values center near $527,600, an affordability ratio of 5.3×. There are about 2,973 housing units across 98294. Owners hold 87% of homes, renters 13%. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 32/100. About 7,838 people live here, median age 38. The vacancy rate is 5.2%. 5.5% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Around 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Households earn a median $87,981 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. Around 38% of renters are cost-burdened.

Overall, 98294 shows a mixed profile — neither uniformly stressed nor insulated — so opportunity is property-specific. Parcel-level detail for 98294 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced to public records.

The number is not local guesswork: 98294's 34/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. Where the public record is thin for 98294, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.

98294'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 an operator, 98294 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.