ZIP 98014 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
King County, Washington · High Value market
In King County, Washington, ZIP 98014 scores 31 of 100 for composite distress, a moderate level on DLRadar's public-record index. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (100/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (94/100), FEMA disaster exposure (78/100)). Its heaviest discrete signals: structural risk (67/100), institutional ownership (63/100), mortgage stress (20/100). mortgage stress (20/100) and construction/permit lag (11/100) stay muted. The latent-versus-live split is 67/100 structural and 6/100 already moving.
The market reads peak — home values held roughly flat year on year, and 4% higher over three years, at 16/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.
About 7,681 people live here, median age 42. Vacancy runs 2.4%. Home values center near $940,600, an affordability ratio of 5.4×. Median household income is $157,680, above the U.S. median near $78,000. Owners hold 91% of homes, renters 9%. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 31/100. There are about 2,927 housing units across 98014. Around 42% of renters are cost-burdened. Around 48% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Roughly 5.2% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas.
On balance 98014 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. No parcel file is published for 98014 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.
No ZIP is too small to score: 98014 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 31/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Sparse data for 98014 shows as blanks, never estimates, and the score updates on every fresh public filing.
98014'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 an operator, 98014 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.
Distress signal breakdown — ZIP 98014
Tax delinquency, institutional ownership, insurance pressure, NFIP/flood, construction lag, price dislocation and auction velocity — plus the 0 individual distressed properties are broken out by owner, address, APN, per-property score and exit read inside DLRadar.
Snapshot: 98014 by the numbers
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