ZIP 98355 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 98355 (Lewis County, Washington) at a low 26/100 for overall property distress. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (89/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (85/100), FEMA disaster exposure (64/100). Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (56/100), institutional ownership (53/100), mortgage stress (21/100). mortgage stress (21/100) stay muted. Structural exposure scores 56 and live distress 6 on the 0–100 scale.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.8% over the trailing year, at 26/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

A median home runs $402,900 here, or 4.2 times local income. The tenure split is 66% owner-occupied to 35% rented. 699 residents call 98355 home, typically aged 32. There are about 318 housing units across 98355. On demographic stress specifically, 98355 scores 48/100. About 41% have a four-year degree. Vacancy runs 41.2%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Rent burden reaches 100% of tenant households. Households earn a median $98,250 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. Roughly 25.0% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory.

Taken together, 98355 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.