ZIP 98005 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

King County, Washington's ZIP 98005 registers 35/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. Structural risk reads 79/100 against active distress of 6/100. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (100/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (94/100), FEMA disaster exposure (64/100). The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (79/100), construction/permit lag (70/100), institutional ownership (55/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (20/100) register low.

The market reads peak — home values rose 2.8% year on year, and 36% higher over three years, at 26/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

The typical home is worth about $1,519,500 (8.7× income, severely stretched). 51% of housing is owner-occupied. About 21,929 people live here, median age 37. The poverty rate is 9.1%. There are about 9,506 housing units across 98005. Rent burden reaches 35% of tenant households. At $158,396, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. Around 71% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Vacancy runs 4.5%. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 42/100.

Net-net, 98005 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.