ZIP 98539 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Lewis County, Washington · High Poverty market
ZIP code 98539 in Lewis County, Washington carries a composite property-distress score of 33/100 — a moderate reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (89/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (85/100), FEMA disaster exposure (78/100). Its standout signals are structural risk (74/100), institutional ownership (61/100), construction/permit lag (57/100). mortgage stress (21/100) stay muted. The split runs 74/100 structural to 6/100 active on the ground.
The peak-phase market in 98539 posted values that held roughly flat over the year (phase confidence 16/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.
Owners hold 82% of homes, renters 18%. About 12% have a four-year degree. A median home runs $400,000 here. The ZIP holds roughly 60 housing units. About 185 people live here, median age 32. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 41/100. Vacancy runs 4.0%. Around 80% of renters are cost-burdened. At $85,893, median income runs near typical U.S. levels. 23.2% of residents fall below the poverty threshold.
On the whole, 98539 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. 98539 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.
Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 98539's 33/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Lewis County, Washington or any ZIP coast to coast. 98539 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.
The 33/100 for 98539 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. Practically, 98539 works as a screen — verify the reading, drill to the specific parcels driving it, and carry the deal through capital and closing on the platform.
ZIP 98539 distress signals, scored
Tax delinquency, institutional ownership, insurance pressure, NFIP/flood, construction lag, price dislocation and auction velocity — plus the 0 individual distressed properties — each with owner, address, APN, its own distress score and an exit read — are in the full report.
Snapshot: 98539 by the numbers
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