ZIP 98596 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Lewis County, Washington's ZIP 98596 registers 26/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (56/100), institutional ownership (53/100), mortgage stress (21/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (21/100) register low. The latent-versus-live split is 56/100 structural and 6/100 already moving. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (89/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (85/100), FEMA disaster exposure (64/100).

The market reads peak — home values rose 2.8% year on year, and 23% higher over three years (phase confidence 26/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

At $75,750, median income runs near typical U.S. levels. The typical home is worth about $415,600 (4.8× income). The ZIP holds roughly 2,520 housing units. Around 25% of renters are cost-burdened. The poverty rate is 10.8%. Around 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 84% of housing is owner-occupied. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 31/100. The vacancy rate is 4.5%. About 7,276 people live here, median age 40.

Net-net, 98596 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.