ZIP 98901 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Yakima County, Washington's ZIP 98901 registers 29/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (93/100), FEMA disaster exposure (86/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (75/100). The latent-versus-live split is 62/100 structural and 7/100 already moving. The most distinctive pressure shows up in institutional ownership (63/100), structural risk (62/100), mortgage stress (23/100). mortgage stress (23/100) and construction/permit lag (5/100) stay muted.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 4.4% over the trailing year, and 12% higher over three years (phase confidence 28/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

Households earn a median $56,429 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Roughly 21.5% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. Around 39% of renters are cost-burdened. The ZIP holds roughly 12,202 housing units. The vacancy rate is 6.9%. A median home runs $279,600 here, or 4.8 times local income. About 17% have a four-year degree. 32,080 residents call 98901 home, typically aged 32. On demographic stress specifically, 98901 scores 39/100. The tenure split is 50% owner-occupied to 50% rented.

Taken together, 98901 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.