ZIP 98944 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP 98944's composite property-distress score is 29/100 - DLRadar classes that as low for Benton County, Washington. Structural exposure scores 64 and live distress 6 on the 0–100 scale. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (89/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (80/100), FEMA disaster exposure (65/100). Its heaviest discrete signals: structural risk (64/100), institutional ownership (52/100), construction/permit lag (34/100). construction/permit lag (34/100) 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 29/100 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.