ZIP 98526 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Grays Harbor County, Washington · High Vacancy market
In Grays Harbor County, Washington, ZIP 98526 scores 34 of 100 for composite distress, a moderate level on DLRadar's public-record index. The latent-versus-live split is 75/100 structural and 6/100 already moving. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (96/100), FEMA disaster exposure (78/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (66/100). Its heaviest discrete signals: structural risk (75/100), construction/permit lag (68/100), institutional ownership (57/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (21/100) register low.
The peak-phase market in 98526 posted values that held roughly flat over the year (phase confidence 16/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.
The typical home is worth about $215,000 (1.5× income, relatively affordable). Owners hold 67% of homes, renters 33%. Population is roughly 176 with a median age of 40. The vacancy rate is 41.7% — elevated. Rent burden reaches 24% of tenant households. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 26/100. Around 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. There are about 158 housing units across 98526. 11.4% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Median household income is $43,571, below the U.S. median near $78,000.
On the whole, 98526 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. There is no property file for 98526 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable public records.
No ZIP is too small to score: 98526 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 34/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 98526 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.
98526's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. For an operator, 98526 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.
What is driving ZIP 98526’s distress
Delinquency on tax, investor concentration, insurance pressure, NFIP flood, lagging construction, price dislocation and sale velocity — and the 0 individual distressed properties — each with owner, address, APN, its own distress score and an exit read — are in the full report.
The 98526 distress snapshot
A live read on 98526: distress, market phase, housing and bank pressure — identical to the report behind every parcel.
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