ZIP 98936 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Scored purely from public records, 98936 (Yakima County, Washington) returns a moderate composite of 34/100. Its standout signals are structural risk (75/100), institutional ownership (69/100), construction/permit lag (48/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (23/100) register low. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (98/100), climate & FEMA risk (93/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (73/100). Structurally it carries 75/100, against 7/100 of stress already in motion.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.0% over the trailing year, and 10% higher over three years, at 20/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

Vacancy runs 5.2%. 85% of housing is owner-occupied. At $95,625, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. Educational attainment sits at 19% bachelor's-or-above. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 24/100. About 8,898 people live here, median age 32. 7.7% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. The typical home is worth about $364,700 (3.4× income, relatively affordable). Around 3% of renters are cost-burdened. The ZIP holds roughly 2,863 housing units.

Overall, 98936 shows a mixed profile — neither uniformly stressed nor insulated — so opportunity is property-specific. No parcel file is published for 98936 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

No ZIP is too small to score: 98936 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 34/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 98936 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

98936's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. The point of the 98936 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.