ZIP 98626 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Cowlitz County, Washington · Distress market
DLRadar grades ZIP 98626 (Cowlitz County, Washington) at a moderate 33/100 for overall property distress. What sets it apart are the readings on structural risk (73/100), construction/permit lag (62/100), institutional ownership (55/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (17/100) register low. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (90/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (87/100), FEMA disaster exposure (65/100). The split runs 73/100 structural to 5/100 active on the ground.
The market reads peak — home values rose 2.4% year on year, and 8% higher over three years, at 22/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.
68% of housing is owner-occupied. Around 41% of renters are cost-burdened. Roughly 12.6% live below the poverty line. Educational attainment sits at 15% bachelor's-or-above. Median household income is $70,058, near the U.S. median near $78,000. The typical home is worth about $368,900 (4.8× income). The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 36/100. Population is roughly 26,948 with a median age of 40. The vacancy rate is 4.3%. There are about 10,766 housing units across 98626.
On balance 98626 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. There is no property file for 98626 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable public records.
Whether 98626 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 98626 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Cowlitz County, Washington or nationwide. Sparse data for 98626 shows as blanks, never estimates, and the score updates on every fresh public filing.
98626'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. Treat 98626 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.
Distress signal breakdown — ZIP 98626
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: 98626 by the numbers
Live ZIP-level distress, market-phase, housing and bank-pressure read — the same report attached to every property.
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