ZIP 98951 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Yakima County, Washington · Distress market
Yakima County, Washington's ZIP 98951 registers 34/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — FEMA disaster exposure (98/100), climate & FEMA risk (93/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (73/100). Its heaviest discrete signals: structural risk (75/100), institutional ownership (69/100), construction/permit lag (48/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (23/100). The split runs 75/100 structural to 7/100 active on the ground.
The peak-phase market in 98951 posted values that rose 2.0% over the year, and 2% higher over three years (phase confidence 20/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.
About 12,935 people live here, median age 30. The vacancy rate is 4.6%. Households earn a median $63,083 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Rent burden reaches 31% of tenant households. The tenure split is 54% owner-occupied to 46% rented. 19.8% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. The typical home is worth about $230,400 (3.4× income, relatively affordable). The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 35/100. There are about 3,737 housing units across 98951. Educational attainment sits at 11% bachelor's-or-above.
Overall, 98951 shows a mixed profile — neither uniformly stressed nor insulated — so opportunity is property-specific. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.
The number is not local guesswork: 98951's 34/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. Sparse data for 98951 shows as blanks, never estimates, and the score updates on every fresh public filing.
The 34/100 for 98951 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. For a buyer, 98951 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.
What is driving ZIP 98951’s distress
Tax delinquency, institutional ownership, insurance pressure, NFIP/flood, construction lag, price dislocation and auction velocity — plus the 0 individual distressed properties are listed in full, with owner, address, APN, per-parcel score and exit-velocity read.
The 98951 distress snapshot
Current distress, phase, housing and lender-pressure figures for 98951, drawn from the same report attached to each property.
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