ZIP 98602 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Klickitat County, Washington · High Vacancy market
DLRadar grades ZIP 98602 (Klickitat County, Washington) at a low 20/100 for overall property distress. Its heaviest discrete signals: institutional ownership (46/100), structural risk (40/100), construction/permit lag (7/100). On the quiet end sit construction/permit lag (7/100). The split runs 40/100 structural to 0/100 active on the ground. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — FEMA disaster exposure (78/100), climate & FEMA risk (71/100).
Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 1.2% over the trailing year, at 20/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.
The tenure split is 100% owner-occupied to 0% rented. Vacancy runs 38.8%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. About 198 people live here, median age 54. About 12% have a four-year degree. 8.6% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. There are about 217 housing units across 98602. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 27/100.
On the whole, 98602 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. While 98602 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.
No ZIP is too small to score: 98602 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 20/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Where the public record is thin for 98602, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.
98602's score blends several independent layers — foreclosure and mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, bank headwind and structural exposure — into one 0–100 number, so understanding the components matters as much as the headline for anyone screening the ZIP. Practically, 98602 works as a screen — verify the reading, drill to the specific parcels driving it, and carry the deal through capital and closing on the platform.
Signal-by-signal read on 98602
Tax arrears, institutional buyers, insurance load, flood exposure, stalled construction, dislocated pricing and auction velocity — together with the 0 individual distressed properties — each with owner, address, APN, its own distress score and an exit read — are in the full report.
The 98602 distress snapshot
Current distress, phase, housing and lender-pressure figures for 98602, drawn from the same report attached to each property.
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