ZIP 98506 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

ZIP code 98506 in Thurston County, Washington carries a composite property-distress score of 23/100 — a low reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (95/100). What sets it apart are the readings on structural risk (48/100), institutional ownership (38/100), mortgage stress (14/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (14/100) and construction/permit lag (9/100) register low. Structural exposure scores 48 and live distress 4 on the 0–100 scale.

The market reads neutral — home values rose 4.5% year on year, and 10% higher over three years, at 27/100 phase confidence. Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

Vacancy runs 5.7%. The typical home is worth about $490,900 (5.0× income). The poverty rate is 11.5%. Around 51% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. About 18,763 people live here, median age 47. At $93,968, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. 67% of housing is owner-occupied. There are about 9,133 housing units across 98506. Rent burden reaches 42% of tenant households. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 33/100.

Overall 98506 looks resilient on the surface, so the edge is isolating individual stressed parcels. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.