ZIP 98365 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Jefferson County, Washington · High Vacancy market
In Jefferson County, Washington, ZIP 98365 scores 21 of 100 for composite distress, a low level on DLRadar's public-record index. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (78/100), climate & FEMA risk (60/100). The latent-versus-live split is 45/100 structural and 5/100 already moving. The most distinctive pressure shows up in institutional ownership (47/100), structural risk (45/100), construction/permit lag (27/100). construction/permit lag (27/100) and mortgage stress (17/100) stay muted.
Prices here sit in a peak phase: values held roughly flat over the trailing year, and 10% higher over three years, at 16/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.
At $98,393, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. Around 26% of renters are cost-burdened. Roughly 11.0% live below the poverty line. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 33/100. Owners hold 91% of homes, renters 9%. Home values center near $673,800, an affordability ratio of 6.1×. Educational attainment sits at 45% bachelor's-or-above. There are about 3,144 housing units across 98365. About 5,178 people live here, median age 65. The vacancy rate is 17.2% — elevated.
Net-net, 98365 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.
The number is not local guesswork: 98365's 21/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 98365 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.
The 21/100 for 98365 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. In workflow terms, 98365 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.
Signal-by-signal read on 98365
Tax arrears, institutional buyers, insurance load, flood exposure, stalled construction, dislocated pricing and auction velocity — together with the 0 individual distressed properties are listed in full, with owner, address, APN, per-parcel score and exit-velocity read.
Snapshot: 98365 by the numbers
Real-time distress, cycle phase, housing and bank-stress readings for 98365, the same set carried on every parcel.
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The complete 98365 distress and acquisition report
The full 98365 file lists each distressed parcel with owner, address, APN, per-property score, bank exposure and exit-velocity read, and carries it straight through funding and closing. Refreshed continuously.
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