ZIP 98683 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP code 98683 in Clark County, Washington carries a composite property-distress score of 29/100 — a low reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. Latent structural risk is 62/100 while live distress already moving reads 4/100. What sets it apart are the readings on construction/permit lag (63/100), structural risk (62/100), institutional ownership (41/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (12/100). It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (93/100), FEMA disaster exposure (65/100).

The peak-phase market in 98683 posted values that rose 1.0% over the year, and 8% higher over three years (phase confidence 11/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

The ZIP holds roughly 14,683 housing units. Households earn a median $83,821 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure. 31,613 residents call 98683 home, typically aged 43. Around 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The vacancy rate is 5.3%. On demographic stress specifically, 98683 scores 38/100. The tenure split is 56% owner-occupied to 44% rented. 10.3% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. A median home runs $543,100 here, or 6.0 times local income. Rent burden reaches 48% of tenant households.

Net-net, 98683 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. Parcel-level detail for 98683 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced to public records.

Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 98683's 29/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Clark County, Washington or any ZIP coast to coast. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 98683 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

Each component behind 98683 - foreclosure, mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, lender pullback, structural exposure - is graded on its own before the 29/100 roll-up. For a buyer, 98683 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.