ZIP 98937 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Composite property distress in 98937 (Yakima County, Washington) lands at 28/100 — low on DLRadar's public-record scoring. Structural risk reads 60/100 against active distress of 7/100. The sharpest non-environmental signals are institutional ownership (64/100), structural risk (60/100), mortgage stress (23/100). mortgage stress (23/100) stay muted. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (93/100), FEMA disaster exposure (88/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (73/100).

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 4.5% over the trailing year, and 13% higher over three years, at 28/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

4,701 residents call 98937 home, typically aged 39. Households earn a median $63,646 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Vacancy runs 25.4%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Rent burden reaches 33% of tenant households. A median home runs $369,300 here, or 5.4 times local income. There are about 2,495 housing units across 98937. The tenure split is 73% owner-occupied to 27% rented. On demographic stress specifically, 98937 scores 37/100. Roughly 13.5% live below the poverty line. About 21% have a four-year degree.

Taken together, 98937 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.