ZIP 98530 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 98530 (Thurston County, Washington) at a low 23/100 for overall property distress. Property-level stress concentrates in 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. The latent-versus-live split is 48/100 structural and 4/100 already moving. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (95/100).

The market reads neutral — home values rose 4.5% year on year (phase confidence 27/100). Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

At $63,750, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 32/100. The ZIP holds roughly 231 housing units. Around 13% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The vacancy rate is 8.7%. 74% of housing is owner-occupied. The poverty rate is 30.4% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. About 511 people live here, median age 38. Around 12% of renters are cost-burdened. The typical home is worth about $335,300 (3.4× income, relatively affordable).

Net-net, 98530 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.