ZIP 98506 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Thurston County, Washington · Distress market
On DLRadar's 0-100 distress scale, ZIP 98506 in Thurston County, Washington comes in at 25, a low composite-distress reading. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (95/100), FEMA disaster exposure (68/100). Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (53/100), institutional ownership (41/100), construction/permit lag (27/100). By contrast, construction/permit lag (27/100) and mortgage stress (14/100) register low. Structurally it carries 53/100, against 4/100 of stress already in motion.
Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.1% over the trailing year, and 10% higher over three years (phase confidence 20/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.
The vacancy rate is 5.7%. Home values center near $490,900, an affordability ratio of 5.0×. Roughly 11.5% live below the poverty line. Around 51% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 18,763 residents call 98506 home, typically aged 47. Households earn a median $93,968 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. 67% of housing is owner-occupied. The ZIP holds roughly 9,133 housing units. Around 42% of renters are cost-burdened. On demographic stress specifically, 98506 scores 33/100.
Net-net, 98506 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. No parcel file is published for 98506 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.
The number is not local guesswork: 98506's 25/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. 98506 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.
The 25/100 for 98506 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. The point of the 98506 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.
ZIP 98506 distress signals, scored
Tax arrears, institutional buyers, insurance load, flood exposure, stalled construction, dislocated pricing and auction velocity — together with the 0 individual distressed properties — each with owner, address, APN, its own distress score and an exit read — are in the full report.
Snapshot: 98506 by the numbers
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