ZIP 98831 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Chelan County, Washington · High Vacancy market
Scored on a fixed 0-100 scale, 98831 (Chelan County, Washington) returns a moderate composite of 36/100. The sharpest non-environmental signals are structural risk (80/100), institutional ownership (68/100), construction/permit lag (68/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (24/100). Environmental exposure also runs high (flood (NFIP) exposure (93/100), climate & FEMA risk (90/100), FEMA disaster exposure (88/100)). The split runs 80/100 structural to 7/100 active on the ground.
Prices here sit in a contraction phase: values fell 2.6% over the trailing year, 2.6% off the recent peak, and 11% higher over three years, at 65/100 phase confidence. A cooling market tends to open discount-to-value windows.
Households earn a median $73,223 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 50/100. Around 43% of renters are cost-burdened. The vacancy rate is 39.8% — elevated. The poverty rate is 6.7% — low. The typical home is worth about $659,500 (8.9× income, severely stretched). About 4,020 people live here, median age 46. The tenure split is 67% owner-occupied to 33% rented. About 32% have a four-year degree. There are about 2,220 housing units across 98831.
Net-net, 98831 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. 98831 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.
Big metro or rural, 98831 runs through one identical scoring model, so its 36/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Chelan County, Washington and the nation. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 98831 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.
98831'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. The point of the 98831 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.
Distress signal breakdown — ZIP 98831
Delinquency on tax, investor concentration, insurance pressure, NFIP flood, lagging construction, price dislocation and sale velocity — and the 0 individual distressed properties carry owner, address, APN, a parcel-level score and an exit read in the full DLRadar file.
98831 at a glance
Current distress, phase, housing and lender-pressure figures for 98831, drawn from the same report attached to each property.
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