ZIP 98611 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 98611 (Cowlitz County, Washington) at a moderate 32/100 for overall property distress. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (71/100), construction/permit lag (70/100), institutional ownership (45/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (17/100) register low. The latent-versus-live split is 71/100 structural and 5/100 already moving. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (90/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (85/100).

The market reads neutral — home values rose 4.6% year on year, and 4% higher over three years (phase confidence 27/100). Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

At $81,630, median income runs near typical U.S. levels. The typical home is worth about $425,700 (4.7× income). The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 31/100. About 9,367 people live here, median age 44. The ZIP holds roughly 3,723 housing units. Around 14% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Around 28% of renters are cost-burdened. 82% of housing is owner-occupied. The poverty rate is 7.1% — low. The vacancy rate is 5.7%.

Net-net, 98611 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.