ZIP 98938 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Yakima County, Washington · High Poverty market
Yakima County, Washington's ZIP 98938 registers 34/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. The pressure is most legible in structural risk (75/100), institutional ownership (69/100), construction/permit lag (48/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (23/100). Environmental exposure also runs high (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.
The peak-phase market in 98938 posted values that rose 2.0% over the year (phase confidence 20/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.
The vacancy rate is 2.3%. The poverty rate is 32.2% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. Rent burden reaches 43% of tenant households. Educational attainment sits at 4% bachelor's-or-above. 1,678 residents call 98938 home, typically aged 33. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 39/100. There are about 563 housing units across 98938. Owners hold 67% of homes, renters 33%. Median household income is $45,846, below the U.S. median near $78,000. Home values center near $219,900, an affordability ratio of 3.8× — accessible.
Net-net, 98938 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. While 98938 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.
Big metro or rural, 98938 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. 98938 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.
The 34/100 for 98938 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. In workflow terms, 98938 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.
What is driving ZIP 98938’s distress
Unpaid tax, corporate ownership share, insurance cost pressure, NFIP flood risk, construction slowdown, price gaps and auction turnover — plus the 0 individual distressed properties carry owner, address, APN, a parcel-level score and an exit read in the full DLRadar file.
The 98938 distress snapshot
Real-time distress, cycle phase, housing and bank-stress readings for 98938, the same set carried on every parcel.
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