ZIP 98926 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Kittitas County, Washington · Distress market
Kittitas County, Washington's ZIP 98926 registers 32/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (89/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (89/100), FEMA disaster exposure (71/100). Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (71/100), institutional ownership (58/100), construction/permit lag (48/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (22/100) register low. Latent structural risk is 71/100 while live distress already moving reads 6/100.
Prices here sit in a peak phase: values held roughly flat over the trailing year, and 4% higher over three years (phase confidence 16/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.
About 31,883 people live here, median age 32. There are about 15,207 housing units across 98926. Households earn a median $66,826 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Rent burden reaches 47% of tenant households. Owners hold 55% of homes, renters 45%. The poverty rate is 16.3% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. A median home runs $470,300 here, or 6.4 times local income. Educational attainment sits at 38% bachelor's-or-above. Vacancy runs 7.8%. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 41/100.
Overall, 98926 shows a mixed profile — neither uniformly stressed nor insulated — so opportunity is property-specific. 98926 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.
Whether 98926 runs hot or quiet, its 32/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 98926 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Kittitas County, Washington or nationwide. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 98926, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.
98926's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. Practically, 98926 works as a screen — verify the reading, drill to the specific parcels driving it, and carry the deal through capital and closing on the platform.
ZIP 98926 distress signals, scored
Tax-delinquent parcels, institutional ownership, insurance strain, flood risk, construction lag, price dislocation and auction speed — plus the 0 individual distressed properties carry owner, address, APN, a parcel-level score and an exit read in the full DLRadar file.
Snapshot: 98926 by the numbers
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