ZIP 98603 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Cowlitz County, Washington · High Vacancy market
On DLRadar's 0-100 distress scale, ZIP 98603 in Cowlitz County, Washington comes in at 32, a moderate composite-distress reading. Latent structural risk is 71/100 while live distress already moving reads 5/100. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (90/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (84/100), FEMA disaster exposure (60/100). The pressure is most legible in structural risk (71/100), construction/permit lag (63/100), institutional ownership (51/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (17/100).
The peak-phase market in 98603 posted values that rose 2.4% over the year, and 5% higher over three years (phase confidence 22/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.
There are about 615 housing units across 98603. Owners hold 67% of homes, renters 33%. At $77,188, median income runs near typical U.S. levels. Rent burden reaches 28% of tenant households. Vacancy runs 38.7%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 39/100. Home values center near $464,500, an affordability ratio of 4.8×. 17.9% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. About 1,192 people live here, median age 42. About 15% have a four-year degree.
On the whole, 98603 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. There is no property file for 98603 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable records.
Big metro or rural, 98603 runs through one identical scoring model, so its 32/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Cowlitz County, Washington and the nation. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed as records update; 98603 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.
The 32/100 for 98603 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. The point of the 98603 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.
What is driving ZIP 98603’s distress
Tax delinquency, institutional ownership, insurance pressure, NFIP/flood, construction lag, price dislocation and auction velocity — plus the 0 individual distressed properties — each with owner, address, APN, its own distress score and an exit read — are in the full report.
ZIP 98603 Stress Report snapshot
The live 98603 panel — distress score, market phase, housing and bank pressure — as attached to every individual property.
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