ZIP 98539 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

In Lewis County, Washington, ZIP 98539 scores 26 of 100 for composite distress, a low level on DLRadar's public-record index. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (89/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (85/100), FEMA disaster exposure (64/100). Its standout signals are structural risk (56/100), institutional ownership (53/100), mortgage stress (21/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (21/100) register low. Structural exposure scores 56 and live distress 6 on the 0–100 scale.

The market reads peak — home values rose 2.8% year on year, at 26/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

82% of housing is owner-occupied. Around 12% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The typical home is worth about $400,000. There are about 60 housing units across 98539. About 185 people live here, median age 32. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 41/100. Vacancy runs 4.0%. Rent burden reaches 80% of tenant households. At $85,893, median income runs near typical U.S. levels. The poverty rate is 23.2% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate.

Net-net, 98539 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.