ZIP 98947 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Yakima County, Washington's ZIP 98947 registers 28/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. The most distinctive pressure shows up in institutional ownership (64/100), structural risk (60/100), mortgage stress (23/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (23/100) register low. On the structural side it scores 60/100, with 7/100 of stress already active. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (93/100), FEMA disaster exposure (88/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (73/100).

The market reads peak — home values rose 4.5% year on year, and 14% higher over three years (phase confidence 28/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

At $66,711, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 32/100. 77% of housing is owner-occupied. Around 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The poverty rate is 21.2% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. About 3,146 people live here, median age 28. Around 38% of renters are cost-burdened. The ZIP holds roughly 1,079 housing units. The typical home is worth about $243,100 (3.6× income, relatively affordable). The vacancy rate is 0.6%.

Net-net, 98947 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.