ZIP 98946 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Composite property distress in 98946 (Kittitas County, Washington) lands at 34/100 — moderate on DLRadar's public-record scoring. Structural exposure scores 77 and live distress 6 on the 0–100 scale. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (89/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (89/100). The sharpest non-environmental signals are construction/permit lag (83/100), structural risk (77/100), institutional ownership (51/100). mortgage stress (22/100) stay muted.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.8% over the trailing year, at 26/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

303 residents call 98946 home, typically aged 53. A median home runs $384,500 here, or 3.7 times local income. Roughly 9.6% live below the poverty line. There are about 161 housing units across 98946. About 31% have a four-year degree. Vacancy runs 16.3%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. On demographic stress specifically, 98946 scores 29/100. Rent burden reaches 29% of tenant households. The tenure split is 75% owner-occupied to 25% rented. Households earn a median $120,250 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure.

Taken together, 98946 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.