ZIP 98937 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Yakima County, Washington · High Vacancy market
ZIP code 98937 in Yakima County, Washington carries a composite property-distress score of 34/100 — a moderate reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. Structural exposure scores 75 and live distress 7 on the 0–100 scale. The most distinctive pressure shows up in 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).
Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.0% over the trailing year, and 13% higher over three years, at 20/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.
4,701 residents call 98937 home, typically aged 39. At $63,646, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. Vacancy runs 25.4%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Around 33% of renters are cost-burdened. The typical home is worth about $369,300 (5.4× income). The ZIP holds roughly 2,495 housing units. 73% of housing is owner-occupied. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 37/100. The poverty rate is 13.5%. About 21% have a four-year degree.
Net-net, 98937 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. There is no property file for 98937 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable public records.
Big metro or rural, 98937 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 34/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Yakima County, Washington and the nation. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 98937, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.
Behind 98937'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. The point of the 98937 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.
What is driving ZIP 98937’s distress
Tax delinquency, institutional ownership, insurance pressure, NFIP/flood, construction lag, price dislocation and auction velocity — plus the 0 individual distressed properties — each with owner, address, APN, its own distress score and an exit read — are in the full report.
The 98937 distress snapshot
98937 live: composite distress, market phase, housing detail and lender pressure, identical to the per-property report.
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