ZIP 98019 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Scored on a fixed 0-100 scale, 98019 (King County, Washington) returns a moderate composite of 30/100. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (100/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (95/100), FEMA disaster exposure (74/100). Structurally it carries 66/100, against 6/100 of stress already in motion. Its standout signals are structural risk (66/100), institutional ownership (60/100), mortgage stress (20/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (20/100) and construction/permit lag (9/100).

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values held roughly flat over the trailing year, and 10% higher over three years (phase confidence 16/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

Around 54% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Population is roughly 11,712 with a median age of 37. Roughly 7.7% live below the poverty line. There are about 4,283 housing units across 98019. Households earn a median $156,003 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. The tenure split is 90% owner-occupied to 10% rented. Rent burden reaches 50% of tenant households. On demographic stress specifically, 98019 scores 30/100. The typical home is worth about $826,600 (4.8× income). Vacancy runs 2.3%.

Net-net, 98019 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. No parcel file is published for 98019 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

The 98019 read uses the identical scoring model applied coast to coast, which means its 30/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 98019 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of King County, Washington. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 98019, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

98019'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, 98019 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.