ZIP 98596 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Lewis County, Washington · Distress market
On DLRadar's 0-100 public-record scale, ZIP 98596 in Lewis County, Washington comes in at 33, a moderate composite-distress reading. What sets it apart are the readings on structural risk (74/100), institutional ownership (61/100), construction/permit lag (57/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (21/100). Structural exposure scores 74 and live distress 6 on the 0–100 scale. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (89/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (85/100), FEMA disaster exposure (78/100).
Prices here sit in a peak phase: values held roughly flat over the trailing year, and 23% higher over three years, at 16/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.
Median household income is $75,750, near the U.S. median near $78,000. The typical home is worth about $415,600 (4.8× income). There are about 2,520 housing units across 98596. Around 25% of renters are cost-burdened. Roughly 10.8% live below the poverty line. Around 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The tenure split is 84% owner-occupied to 16% rented. 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.
Whether 98596 runs hot or quiet, its 33/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 98596 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Lewis County, Washington or nationwide. Where the public record is thin for 98596, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.
Behind 98596's composite sit distinct signals (foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender and structural), each scored on its own before rolling up, so two ZIPs with the same total can describe very different situations on the ground. For a buyer, 98596 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.
ZIP 98596 distress signals, scored
Unpaid tax, corporate ownership share, insurance cost pressure, NFIP flood risk, construction slowdown, price gaps and auction turnover — 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: 98596 by the numbers
Current distress, phase, housing and lender-pressure figures for 98596, drawn from the same report attached to each property.
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