ZIP 98934 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Scored purely from public records, 98934 (Kittitas County, Washington) returns a moderate composite of 32/100. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (71/100), institutional ownership (58/100), construction/permit lag (48/100). mortgage stress (22/100) stay muted. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (89/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (89/100), FEMA disaster exposure (71/100). Structurally it carries 71/100, against 6/100 of stress already in motion.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values held roughly flat over the trailing year, and 16% higher over three years, at 16/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

At $59,250, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. The vacancy rate is 4.3%. The poverty rate is 19.2% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. Rent burden reaches 57% of tenant households. Around 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. On demographic stress specifically, 98934 scores 37/100. Home values center near $319,900, an affordability ratio of 4.8×. The ZIP holds roughly 477 housing units. 803 residents call 98934 home, typically aged 55. Owners hold 71% of homes, renters 29%.

Net-net, 98934 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. 98934 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 98934's 32/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Kittitas County, Washington or any ZIP coast to coast. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 98934 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

Behind 98934'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 a buyer, 98934 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.