ZIP 98953 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

In Yakima County, Washington, ZIP 98953 scores 28 of 100 for composite distress, a low level on DLRadar's public-record index. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (93/100), FEMA disaster exposure (88/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (73/100). Its standout signals are institutional ownership (64/100), structural risk (60/100), mortgage stress (23/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (23/100) register low. Structural exposure scores 60 and live distress 7 on the 0–100 scale.

The market reads peak — home values rose 4.5% year on year, and 26% higher over three years, at 28/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

Vacancy runs 3.8%. The poverty rate is 10.5%. The typical home is worth about $368,300 (4.4× income). Around 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 78% of housing is owner-occupied. Rent burden reaches 19% of tenant households. There are about 2,398 housing units across 98953. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 30/100. About 6,815 people live here, median age 36. At $82,689, median income runs near typical U.S. levels.

Net-net, 98953 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.