ZIP 98625 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Cowlitz County, Washington · Distress market
Cowlitz County, Washington's ZIP 98625 registers 33/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. Latent structural risk is 73/100 while live distress already moving reads 5/100. The sharpest non-environmental signals are structural risk (73/100), construction/permit lag (62/100), institutional ownership (55/100). mortgage stress (17/100) stay muted. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (90/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (87/100), FEMA disaster exposure (65/100).
The peak-phase market in 98625 posted values that rose 2.4% over the year, and 5% higher over three years (phase confidence 22/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.
7,020 residents call 98625 home, typically aged 51. Median household income is $118,536, above the U.S. median near $78,000. Vacancy runs 5.7%. 79% of housing is owner-occupied. Around 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Around 22% of renters are cost-burdened. Home values center near $513,200, an affordability ratio of 3.7× — accessible. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 27/100. There are about 3,156 housing units across 98625. Roughly 8.2% live below the poverty line.
Overall, 98625 shows a mixed profile — neither uniformly stressed nor insulated — so opportunity is property-specific. There is no property file for 98625 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable public records.
Whether 98625 runs hot or quiet, its 33/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 98625 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Cowlitz County, Washington or nationwide. Sparse data for 98625 shows as blanks, never estimates, and the score updates on every fresh public filing.
The 33/100 figure for 98625 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 a buyer, 98625 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.
What is driving ZIP 98625’s distress
Delinquency on tax, investor concentration, insurance pressure, NFIP flood, lagging construction, price dislocation and sale velocity — and the 0 individual distressed properties are listed in full, with owner, address, APN, per-parcel score and exit-velocity read.
Snapshot: 98625 by the numbers
The live 98625 panel — distress score, market phase, housing and bank pressure — as attached to every individual property.
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