ZIP 98023 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Composite property distress in 98023 (King County, Washington) lands at 31/100 — moderate on DLRadar's public-record scoring. On the structural side it scores 67/100, with 6/100 of stress already active. The pressure is most legible in structural risk (67/100), institutional ownership (63/100), mortgage stress (20/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (20/100) and construction/permit lag (11/100) register low. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (100/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (94/100), FEMA disaster exposure (78/100).

The market reads peak — home values held roughly flat year on year, and 5% higher over three years, at 16/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

Population is roughly 49,593 with a median age of 39. The typical home is worth about $589,900 (5.3× income). The vacancy rate is 5.2%. 66% of housing is owner-occupied. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 36/100. At $101,960, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. Around 41% of renters are cost-burdened. Roughly 9.9% live below the poverty line. There are about 18,564 housing units across 98023. Around 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher.

Net-net, 98023 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.

No ZIP is too small to score: 98023 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. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 98023, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

Each component behind 98023 - foreclosure, mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, lender pullback, structural exposure - is graded on its own before the 31/100 roll-up. For a buyer, 98023 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.