ZIP 98943 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP 98943's composite property-distress score is 32/100 - DLRadar classes that as moderate for Kittitas County, Washington. The sharpest non-environmental signals are structural risk (71/100), institutional ownership (58/100), construction/permit lag (48/100). mortgage stress (22/100) stay muted. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (89/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (89/100), FEMA disaster exposure (71/100)). Latent structural risk is 71/100 while live distress already moving reads 6/100.

The market reads peak — home values held roughly flat year on year, and 34% higher over three years, at 16/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

There are about 306 housing units across 98943. Population is roughly 707 with a median age of 35. The tenure split is 62% owner-occupied to 38% rented. Around 30% of renters are cost-burdened. Roughly 32.0% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. Educational attainment sits at 25% bachelor's-or-above. On demographic stress specifically, 98943 scores 42/100. The vacancy rate is 8.3%. At $60,268, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. The typical home is worth about $374,300 (6.2× income).

Taken together, 98943 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. While 98943 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.

The number is not local guesswork: 98943's 32/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 98943 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

98943'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, 98943 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.