ZIP 98008 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Composite property distress in 98008 (King County, Washington) lands at 31/100 — moderate on DLRadar's public-record scoring. Leading the profile are structural risk (67/100), institutional ownership (63/100), mortgage stress (20/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (20/100) and construction/permit lag (11/100). The split runs 67/100 structural to 6/100 active on the ground. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (100/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (94/100), FEMA disaster exposure (78/100).

The peak-phase market in 98008 posted values that held roughly flat over the year, and 20% higher over three years (phase confidence 16/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

Rent burden reaches 27% of tenant households. On demographic stress specifically, 98008 scores 32/100. Households earn a median $175,242 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. 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. Roughly 5.9% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas. The vacancy rate is 6.4%. 27,138 residents call 98008 home, typically aged 43. There are about 10,117 housing units across 98008.

On balance 98008 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. While 98008 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.

The 98008 read uses the identical public-record model applied coast to coast, which means its 31/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 98008 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of King County, Washington. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 98008 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

98008's score blends several independent layers — foreclosure and mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, bank headwind and structural exposure — into one 0–100 number, so understanding the components matters as much as the headline for anyone screening the ZIP. In workflow terms, 98008 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.