ZIP 98922 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 98922 (Kittitas County, Washington) at a moderate 34/100 for overall property distress. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (89/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (89/100). Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (83/100), structural risk (77/100), institutional ownership (51/100). mortgage stress (22/100) stay muted. Structural risk reads 77/100 against active distress of 6/100.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.8% over the trailing year, and 14% higher over three years, at 26/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

There are about 5,465 housing units across 98922. On demographic stress specifically, 98922 scores 45/100. A median home runs $647,600 here, or 8.6 times local income. Vacancy runs 34.2%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. The tenure split is 81% owner-occupied to 19% rented. Rent burden reaches 34% of tenant households. About 29% have a four-year degree. Roughly 9.0% live below the poverty line. 7,915 residents call 98922 home, typically aged 51. Households earn a median $72,962 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure.

Taken together, 98922 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.