ZIP 98011 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

DLRadar grades ZIP 98011 (King County, Washington) at a moderate 31/100 for overall property distress. 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. Structural exposure scores 67 and live distress 6 on the 0–100 scale. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (100/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (94/100), FEMA disaster exposure (78/100).

The peak-phase market in 98011 posted values that held roughly flat over the year, and 16% higher over three years (phase confidence 16/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

Households earn a median $127,445 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. 4.6% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Population is roughly 28,250 with a median age of 38. Rent burden reaches 40% of tenant households. A median home runs $933,000 here, or 7.0 times local income. On demographic stress specifically, 98011 scores 37/100. About 61% have a four-year degree. The vacancy rate is 7.1%. There are about 12,793 housing units across 98011. The tenure split is 57% owner-occupied to 43% rented.

On balance 98011 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. There is no property file for 98011 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable public records.

The 98011 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 98011 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of King County, Washington. Sparse data for 98011 shows as blanks, never estimates, and the score updates on every fresh public filing.

98011'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, 98011 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.