ZIP 98601 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Clark County, Washington · High Vacancy market
ZIP 98601's composite property-distress score is 29/100 - DLRadar classes that as low for Clark County, Washington. Structurally it carries 63/100, against 4/100 of stress already in motion. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (93/100), FEMA disaster exposure (65/100). Leading the profile are construction/permit lag (63/100), structural risk (63/100), institutional ownership (43/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (12/100) register low.
Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 1.2% over the trailing year, and 7% higher over three years, at 12/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.
Vacancy runs 17.2%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. On demographic stress specifically, 98601 scores 32/100. 2,742 residents call 98601 home, typically aged 39. Around 23% of renters are cost-burdened. A median home runs $515,000 here, or 4.8 times local income. Around 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. There are about 1,117 housing units across 98601. Households earn a median $108,990 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. Owners hold 86% of homes, renters 14%. 13.4% of residents fall below the poverty threshold.
Taken together, 98601 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. No parcel file is published for 98601 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.
Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 98601's 29/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Clark County, Washington or any ZIP coast to coast. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 98601 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.
The 29/100 figure for 98601 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. For an operator, 98601 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.
What is driving ZIP 98601’s distress
Unpaid tax, corporate ownership share, insurance cost pressure, NFIP flood risk, construction slowdown, price gaps and auction turnover — plus the 0 individual distressed properties carry owner, address, APN, a parcel-level score and an exit read in the full DLRadar file.
ZIP 98601 Stress Report snapshot
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