ZIP 98938 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Yakima County, Washington's ZIP 98938 registers 28/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. The most distinctive pressure shows up in institutional ownership (64/100), structural risk (60/100), mortgage stress (23/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (23/100) register low. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (93/100), FEMA disaster exposure (88/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (73/100). The latent-versus-live split is 60/100 structural and 7/100 already moving.

The market reads peak — home values rose 4.5% year on year (phase confidence 28/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

The vacancy rate is 2.3%. The poverty rate is 32.2% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. Around 43% of renters are cost-burdened. Around 4% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. About 1,678 people live here, median age 33. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 39/100. The ZIP holds roughly 563 housing units. 67% of housing is owner-occupied. At $45,846, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. The typical home is worth about $219,900 (3.8× income, relatively affordable).

Net-net, 98938 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.