ZIP 98952 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

ZIP code 98952 in Yakima County, Washington carries a composite property-distress score of 28/100 — a low reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. What sets it apart are the readings on institutional ownership (64/100), structural risk (60/100), mortgage stress (23/100). mortgage stress (23/100) stay muted. The latent-versus-live split is 60/100 structural and 7/100 already moving. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (93/100), FEMA disaster exposure (88/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (73/100).

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 4.5% over the trailing year (phase confidence 28/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

Households earn a median $56,957 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Roughly 33.5% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. About 15% have a four-year degree. Around 17% of renters are cost-burdened. The ZIP holds roughly 580 housing units. 1,735 residents call 98952 home, typically aged 34. On demographic stress specifically, 98952 scores 30/100. The tenure split is 65% owner-occupied to 35% rented. A median home runs $102,300 here, or 1.9 times local income. The vacancy rate is 13.3% — elevated.

Taken together, 98952 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.