ZIP 98542 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP code 98542 in Lewis County, Washington carries a composite property-distress score of 26/100 — a low 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 (64/100). What sets it apart are the readings on 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.

There are about 230 housing units across 98542. The typical home is worth about $372,300 (6.7× income). The poverty rate is 18.5% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. Around 5% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 68% of housing is owner-occupied. At $61,818, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. Vacancy runs 0.0%. Rent burden reaches 58% of tenant households. About 686 people live here, median age 48. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 47/100.

Net-net, 98542 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.