ZIP 98944 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Benton County, Washington · Distress market
ZIP 98944's composite property-distress score is 28/100 - DLRadar classes that as low for Benton County, Washington. Structural exposure scores 61 and live distress 6 on the 0–100 scale. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (89/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (77/100), FEMA disaster exposure (64/100). Its heaviest discrete signals: structural risk (61/100), institutional ownership (51/100), construction/permit lag (24/100). construction/permit lag (24/100) and mortgage stress (20/100) stay muted.
Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 1.7% over the trailing year, and 29% higher over three years, at 14/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.
A median home runs $260,000 here, or 3.8 times local income. Owners hold 63% of homes, renters 37%. Population is roughly 24,048 with a median age of 28. Vacancy runs 4.4%. Households earn a median $60,167 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Around 37% of renters are cost-burdened. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 36/100. 17.4% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. The ZIP holds roughly 6,651 housing units. Educational attainment sits at 9% bachelor's-or-above.
Overall, 98944 shows a mixed profile — neither uniformly stressed nor insulated — so opportunity is property-specific. 98944 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.
No ZIP is too small to score: 98944 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 28/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 98944 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.
98944's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. In workflow terms, 98944 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.
ZIP 98944 distress signals, scored
Tax-delinquent parcels, institutional ownership, insurance strain, flood risk, construction lag, price dislocation and auction speed — plus the 0 individual distressed properties (owner, address, APN, per-property score and exit read) are in the full DLRadar report.
Snapshot: 98944 by the numbers
Real-time distress, cycle phase, housing and bank-stress readings for 98944, the same set carried on every parcel.
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