ZIP 98953 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP code 98953 in Yakima County, Washington carries a composite property-distress score of 34/100 — a moderate reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (98/100), climate & FEMA risk (93/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (73/100). The pressure is most legible in structural risk (75/100), institutional ownership (69/100), construction/permit lag (48/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (23/100). The latent-versus-live split is 75/100 structural and 7/100 already moving.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.0% over the trailing year, and 26% higher over three years (phase confidence 20/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

Vacancy runs 3.8%. The poverty rate is 10.5%. Home values center near $368,300, an affordability ratio of 4.4×. About 23% have a four-year degree. 78% of housing is owner-occupied. Rent burden reaches 19% of tenant households. There are about 2,398 housing units across 98953. On demographic stress specifically, 98953 scores 30/100. About 6,815 people live here, median age 36. Households earn a median $82,689 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure.

Net-net, 98953 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. While 98953 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.

Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 98953's 34/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Yakima County, Washington or any ZIP coast to coast. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 98953 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

The 34/100 figure for 98953 is a composite, not one metric: it rolls up foreclosure and pre-foreclosure activity, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, local lender headwind, and structural risk into a single reading, which is why a ZIP can look calm on price yet score high on distress. For a buyer, 98953 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.