ZIP 98941 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Composite property distress in 98941 (Kittitas County, Washington) lands at 34/100 — moderate on DLRadar's public-record scoring. The sharpest non-environmental signals are construction/permit lag (83/100), structural risk (77/100), institutional ownership (51/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (22/100) register low. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (89/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (89/100). The latent-versus-live split is 77/100 structural and 6/100 already moving.

The market reads peak — home values rose 2.8% year on year, and 4% higher over three years (phase confidence 26/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

The typical home is worth about $565,200 (5.6× income). Around 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The vacancy rate is 34.3% — elevated. Around 52% of renters are cost-burdened. The poverty rate is 5.2% — low. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 39/100. At $82,386, median income runs near typical U.S. levels. 70% of housing is owner-occupied. About 884 people live here, median age 44. The ZIP holds roughly 740 housing units.

Net-net, 98941 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.