ZIP 98935 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Yakima County, Washington · High Poverty market
In Yakima County, Washington, ZIP 98935 scores 34 of 100 for composite distress, a moderate level on DLRadar's public-record index. Structural exposure scores 75 and live distress 7 on the 0–100 scale. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (75/100), institutional ownership (69/100), construction/permit lag (48/100). mortgage stress (23/100) stay muted. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — FEMA disaster exposure (98/100), climate & FEMA risk (93/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (73/100).
The peak-phase market in 98935 posted values that rose 2.0% over the year, and 15% higher over three years (phase confidence 20/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.
4,481 residents call 98935 home, typically aged 26. 60% of housing is owner-occupied. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 34/100. There are about 1,224 housing units across 98935. The typical home is worth about $225,500 (3.1× income, relatively affordable). At $63,775, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. The vacancy rate is 6.9%. Around 26% of renters are cost-burdened. Educational attainment sits at 5% bachelor's-or-above. The poverty rate is 20.7% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate.
Net-net, 98935 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. While 98935 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, 98935's 34/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Yakima County, Washington or any ZIP coast to coast. 98935 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.
98935's score blends several independent layers — foreclosure and mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, bank headwind and structural exposure — into one 0–100 number, so understanding the components matters as much as the headline for anyone screening the ZIP. For a buyer, 98935 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.
Signal-by-signal read on 98935
Tax arrears, institutional buyers, insurance load, flood exposure, stalled construction, dislocated pricing and auction velocity — together with the 0 individual distressed properties — each with owner, address, APN, its own distress score and an exit read — are in the full report.
Snapshot: 98935 by the numbers
The live 98935 panel — distress score, market phase, housing and bank pressure — as attached to every individual property.
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