ZIP 98008 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 98008 (King County, Washington) at a moderate 35/100 for overall property distress. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (79/100), construction/permit lag (70/100), institutional ownership (55/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (20/100) register low. On the structural side it scores 79/100, with 6/100 of stress already active. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (100/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (94/100), FEMA disaster exposure (64/100).

The market reads peak — home values rose 2.8% year on year, and 20% higher over three years (phase confidence 26/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

Around 27% of renters are cost-burdened. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 32/100. At $175,242, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. The typical home is worth about $1,206,200 (6.5× income). Around 67% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 73% of housing is owner-occupied. The poverty rate is 5.9% — low. The vacancy rate is 6.4%. About 27,138 people live here, median age 43. The ZIP holds roughly 10,117 housing units.

Net-net, 98008 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.