ZIP 98617 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP 98617's composite property-distress score is 20/100 - DLRadar classes that as low for Klickitat County, Washington. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (78/100), climate & FEMA risk (71/100). The split runs 40/100 structural to 5/100 active on the ground. Its standout signals are institutional ownership (46/100), structural risk (40/100), mortgage stress (16/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (16/100) and construction/permit lag (7/100).

The peak-phase market in 98617 posted values that rose 1.2% over the year, and 28% higher over three years, at 20/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

Roughly 17.6% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. About 1,105 people live here, median age 56. Median household income is $67,313, below the U.S. median near $78,000. There are about 625 housing units across 98617. Around 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 32/100. The vacancy rate is 2.0%. The typical home is worth about $377,900 (5.4× income). Rent burden reaches 11% of tenant households. The tenure split is 75% owner-occupied to 25% rented.

Net-net, 98617 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. There is no property file for 98617 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable public records.

No ZIP is too small to score: 98617 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. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 98617 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

Behind 98617'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 an operator, 98617 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.