ZIP 98010 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

King County, Washington's ZIP 98010 registers 31/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. The split runs 67/100 structural to 6/100 active on the ground. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (100/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (94/100), FEMA disaster exposure (78/100). Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (67/100), institutional ownership (63/100), mortgage stress (20/100). mortgage stress (20/100) and construction/permit lag (11/100) stay muted.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values held roughly flat over the trailing year, and 8% higher over three years, at 16/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

Vacancy runs 4.5%. The poverty rate is 1.5% — low. Population is roughly 6,351 with a median age of 39. Around 56% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Owners hold 88% of homes, renters 12%. Around 14% of renters are cost-burdened. The typical home is worth about $775,400 (5.3× income). The ZIP holds roughly 2,775 housing units. Households earn a median $148,692 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 25/100.

Net-net, 98010 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. Parcel-level detail for 98010 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced to public records.

The number is not local guesswork: 98010's 31/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 98010, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

98010'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. For a buyer, 98010 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.