ZIP 98940 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP 98940's composite property-distress score is 32/100 - DLRadar classes that as moderate for Kittitas County, Washington. On the structural side it scores 71/100, with 6/100 of stress already active. The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (71/100), institutional ownership (58/100), construction/permit lag (48/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (22/100). It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (89/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (89/100), FEMA disaster exposure (71/100).

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values held roughly flat over the trailing year, at 16/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

Vacancy runs 74.0%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. There are about 1,075 housing units across 98940. The tenure split is 70% owner-occupied to 30% rented. Rent burden reaches 0% of tenant households. Households earn a median $122,801 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. On demographic stress specifically, 98940 scores 29/100. 461 residents call 98940 home, typically aged 58. About 35% have a four-year degree. The typical home is worth about $612,800 (4.0× income). 0.0% of residents fall below the poverty threshold.

On the whole, 98940 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. While 98940 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.

Big metro or rural, 98940 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 32/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Kittitas County, Washington and the nation. Sparse data for 98940 shows as blanks, never estimates, and the score updates on every fresh public filing.

98940's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. For a buyer, 98940 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.