ZIP 98902 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Yakima County, Washington's ZIP 98902 registers 34/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. Structurally it carries 75/100, against 7/100 of stress already in motion. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (75/100), institutional ownership (69/100), construction/permit lag (48/100). mortgage stress (23/100) stay muted. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (98/100), climate & FEMA risk (93/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (73/100).

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.0% over the trailing year, and 12% higher over three years, at 20/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

45,377 residents call 98902 home, typically aged 35. 16.7% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. The vacancy rate is 3.9%. About 19% have a four-year degree. There are about 17,937 housing units across 98902. At $60,050, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. The tenure split is 52% owner-occupied to 48% rented. Around 35% of renters are cost-burdened. A median home runs $263,200 here, or 4.0 times local income. On demographic stress specifically, 98902 scores 35/100.

Net-net, 98902 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. While 98902 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.

Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 98902's 34/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Yakima County, Washington or any ZIP coast to coast. 98902 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.

Behind 98902's composite sit distinct signals (foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender and structural), each scored on its own before rolling up, so two ZIPs with the same total can describe very different situations on the ground. In workflow terms, 98902 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.