ZIP 98923 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

DLRadar grades ZIP 98923 (Yakima County, Washington) at a moderate 34/100 for overall property distress. The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (75/100), institutional ownership (69/100), construction/permit lag (48/100). mortgage stress (23/100) stay muted. The split runs 75/100 structural to 7/100 active on the ground. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (98/100), climate & FEMA risk (93/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (73/100).

The market reads peak — home values rose 2.0% year on year, and 34% higher over three years, at 20/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

Around 63% of renters are cost-burdened. The typical home is worth about $243,600 (5.0× income). 11.2% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. The vacancy rate is 4.8%. At $45,409, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. Owners hold 49% of homes, renters 51%. The ZIP holds roughly 571 housing units. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 39/100. About 32% have a four-year degree. About 1,027 people live here, median age 57.

Net-net, 98923 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. While 98923 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.

Big metro or rural, 98923 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 34/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Yakima County, Washington and the nation. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 98923, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

Behind 98923'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. For an operator, 98923 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.