ZIP 98941 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Kittitas County, Washington · High Vacancy market
DLRadar grades ZIP 98941 (Kittitas County, Washington) at a moderate 33/100 for overall property distress. What sets it apart are the readings on structural risk (73/100), construction/permit lag (58/100), institutional ownership (56/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (22/100). Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (89/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (89/100), FEMA disaster exposure (68/100). The split runs 73/100 structural to 6/100 active on the ground.
The peak-phase market in 98941 posted values that held roughly flat over the year, and 4% higher over three years (phase confidence 16/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.
The typical home is worth about $565,200 (5.6× income). Educational attainment sits at 38% bachelor's-or-above. The vacancy rate is 34.3% — elevated. Rent burden reaches 52% of tenant households. 5.2% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. On demographic stress specifically, 98941 scores 39/100. At $82,386, median income runs near typical U.S. levels. The tenure split is 70% owner-occupied to 30% rented. Population is roughly 884 with a median age of 44. The ZIP holds roughly 740 housing units.
On the whole, 98941 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. Parcel-level detail for 98941 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced.
No ZIP is too small to score: 98941 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 33/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. 98941 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.
Behind 98941'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. In workflow terms, 98941 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.
Distress signal breakdown — ZIP 98941
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.
Snapshot: 98941 by the numbers
98941 live: composite distress, market phase, housing detail and lender pressure, identical to the per-property report.
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Every distressed parcel in 98941 comes with owner and address, APN, its own distress score, bank exposure and an exit-velocity read — plus a one-click path to owner and lender records, refreshed continuously nationwide.
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