ZIP 98542 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Lewis County, Washington · Distress market
ZIP code 98542 in Lewis County, Washington carries a composite property-distress score of 33/100 — a moderate reading on DLRadar's deterministic distress index. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (89/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (86/100), FEMA disaster exposure (74/100). Its standout signals are structural risk (74/100), construction/permit lag (62/100), institutional ownership (58/100). mortgage stress (21/100) stay muted. Structurally it carries 74/100, against 6/100 of stress already in motion.
The peak-phase market in 98542 posted values that held roughly flat over the year (phase confidence 16/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.
There are about 230 housing units across 98542. The typical home is worth about $372,300 (6.7× income). Roughly 18.5% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. About 5% have a four-year degree. Owners hold 68% of homes, renters 32%. At $61,818, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. The vacancy rate is 0.0%. Around 58% of renters are cost-burdened. Population is roughly 686 with a median age of 48. On demographic stress specifically, 98542 scores 47/100.
On balance 98542 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.
Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 98542's 33/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Lewis County, Washington or any ZIP coast to coast. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 98542, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.
98542's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. Treat 98542 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.
Distress signal breakdown — ZIP 98542
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