ZIP 98947 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Composite property distress in 98947 (Yakima County, Washington) lands at 34/100 — moderate on DLRadar's distress scoring. What sets it apart are the readings on structural risk (73/100), institutional ownership (68/100), construction/permit lag (46/100). mortgage stress (23/100) stay muted. On the structural side it scores 73/100, with 7/100 of stress already active. Environmental exposure also runs high (FEMA disaster exposure (99/100), climate & FEMA risk (93/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (69/100)).

The market reads peak — home values rose 2.0% year on year, and 14% higher over three years, at 20/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

Median household income is $66,711, below the U.S. median near $78,000. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 32/100. 77% of housing is owner-occupied. Educational attainment sits at 21% bachelor's-or-above. 21.2% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Population is roughly 3,146 with a median age of 28. Around 38% of renters are cost-burdened. The ZIP holds roughly 1,079 housing units. A median home runs $243,100 here, or 3.6 times local income. The vacancy rate is 0.6%.

On the whole, 98947 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.

The 98947 read uses the identical scoring model applied coast to coast, which means its 34/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 98947 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Yakima County, Washington. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 98947, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

Behind 98947's composite sit distinct signals (foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender and structural), each scored on its own before rolling up, so two ZIPs with the same total can describe very different situations on the ground. The point of the 98947 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.