ZIP 98674 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

In Cowlitz County, Washington, ZIP 98674 scores 29 of 100 for composite distress, a low level on DLRadar's public-record index. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (91/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (62/100). Its standout signals are structural risk (64/100), construction/permit lag (59/100), institutional ownership (40/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (15/100) register low. Structural exposure scores 64 and live distress 4 on the 0–100 scale.

The market reads peak — home values rose 3.5% year on year, and 13% higher over three years, at 19/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

Vacancy runs 3.8%. The typical home is worth about $538,000 (5.0× income). The poverty rate is 13.8%. 71% of housing is owner-occupied. Around 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. There are about 5,972 housing units across 98674. About 16,765 people live here, median age 35. Rent burden reaches 29% of tenant households. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 35/100. At $96,081, median income runs above typical U.S. levels.

Net-net, 98674 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.