King County, WA: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
King County, WA, Washington: 89 ZIP codes scored, King County, WA averaging 30/100 (moderate, King, WA), from 29 to 31. King County, WA is in its peak phase (King, WA confidence 16/100): King, WA home prices up 0.4% (King, WA) over twelve months. King County, WA lender headwind: 46/100.
Highest-scoring King County, WA ZIPs: 98072 (31/100), 98001 (30/100), 98002 (30/100), 98003 (30/100), 98004 (30/100), 98005 (30/100). Also scored in King County, WA: 98006, 98007, 98008, 98010, 98011, 98014, 98019, 98022, 98023, 98024.
Across King County, WA's scored ZIPs: median home value $922,645, household income $128,236, 7.8% vacancy, 8.4% poverty, 63% owner-occupied, median age 39.2.
King County, WA insurance distress 83/100 (#279 in the US); FEMA hazard 74/100 for King, WA; 6 federal disaster declarations in King County, WA since 2023 (4 flood); 219 King, WA NFIP flood claims, $10.3M paid; King, WA construction distress 9/100.
38 banks with 411 branches lend in King County, WA; King, WA weighted bank stress 65/100, highest 99/100 in King, WA.
King County, WA unemployment 4.7% (King, WA -0.8 pts, six months); 11,408 new housing units permitted in King County, WA over twelve months, King, WA up 41% from 8,083; King, WA home prices +6.8% a year (King, WA) over three years.
1,003,284 housing units in King County, WA; 407,426 King, WA renter households; 45% of King, WA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 21% (King, WA) half or more.
King County, WA ranks #2,103 nationally on the opportunity index (King, WA, among all ranked counties); King, WA scores 27.3/100 and King, WA sits #28 inside Washington. King, WA is in the weak opportunity phase; King, WA's primary driver is bank institutional, King, WA second driver vacancy; King, WA moved up 357 places. 266 short-sale listings across King, WA; 79 days on market observed in King, WA; 5.7% vacancy over 89 King, WA ZIPs.
0.3% of King County, WA mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; King, WA's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 0.6% (CFPB county sample). King, WA's ninety-day rate is up 0.1 points on twelve months earlier; the King, WA peak since 2008 was 4.2% in November 2011; Washington overall reads 0.6%.
King County, WA has 14 watched banks; 14 King, WA banks sit in an elevated band. King, WA footprints: Wafd Bank (27 branches, stress 67) in King, WA; Banner Bank (14 branches, stress 58) in King, WA; Heritage Bank (6 branches, stress 58) in King, WA.
HUD lists 95 assisted multifamily properties in King County, WA with 7,063 units; 2,121 King, WA units are assisted, 24 King, WA properties under project-based Section 8.
62,230 of the 1,003,284 housing units in King, WA sit vacant. King County, WA permitted 8,348 multifamily units in twelve months; King, WA's one-to-four unit structures added 3,060 units in King County, WA.