ZIP 98546 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Mason County, Washington · High Vacancy market
ZIP code 98546 in Mason County, Washington carries a composite property-distress score of 29/100 — a low reading on DLRadar's deterministic distress index. Structural exposure scores 63 and live distress 7 on the 0–100 scale. Its heaviest discrete signals: structural risk (63/100), institutional ownership (55/100), construction/permit lag (35/100). construction/permit lag (35/100) and mortgage stress (23/100) stay muted. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (84/100), FEMA disaster exposure (75/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (68/100)).
The market reads peak — home values held roughly flat year on year, and 12% higher over three years, at 16/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.
A median home runs $494,500 here, or 5.0 times local income. The tenure split is 93% owner-occupied to 7% rented. Population is roughly 2,288 with a median age of 58. About 28% have a four-year degree. On demographic stress specifically, 98546 scores 31/100. The ZIP holds roughly 2,089 housing units. Around 21% of renters are cost-burdened. At $96,964, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. The vacancy rate is 45.5% — elevated. Roughly 3.1% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas.
Net-net, 98546 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. While 98546 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.
The 98546 read uses the identical scoring model applied coast to coast, which means its 29/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 98546 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Mason County, Washington. Sparse data for 98546 shows as blanks, never estimates, and the score updates on every fresh public filing.
The 29/100 figure for 98546 is a composite, not one metric: it rolls up foreclosure and pre-foreclosure activity, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, local lender headwind, and structural risk into a single reading, which is why a ZIP can look calm on price yet score high on distress. In workflow terms, 98546 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.
Distress signal breakdown — ZIP 98546
Tax-delinquent parcels, institutional ownership, insurance strain, flood risk, construction lag, price dislocation and auction speed — 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: 98546 by the numbers
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