ZIP 98003 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Composite property distress in 98003 (King County, Washington) lands at 30/100 — moderate on DLRadar's distress scoring. Structural risk reads 66/100 against active distress of 6/100. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (100/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (95/100), FEMA disaster exposure (74/100). The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (66/100), institutional ownership (60/100), mortgage stress (20/100). mortgage stress (20/100) and construction/permit lag (9/100) stay muted.

The market reads peak — home values held roughly flat year on year, and 8% higher over three years, at 16/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

Population is roughly 52,210 with a median age of 36. Home values center near $476,600, an affordability ratio of 6.0×. Educational attainment sits at 28% bachelor's-or-above. Owners hold 48% of homes, renters 52%. Households earn a median $70,800 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure. Vacancy runs 4.6%. The poverty rate is 14.3%. There are about 19,754 housing units across 98003. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 42/100. Around 50% of renters are cost-burdened.

Overall, 98003 shows a mixed profile — neither uniformly stressed nor insulated — so opportunity is property-specific. There is no property file for 98003 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable records.

Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 98003's 30/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in King County, Washington or any ZIP coast to coast. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed as records update; 98003 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

The 30/100 figure for 98003 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. In workflow terms, 98003 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.