ZIP 98023 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

King County, Washington's ZIP 98023 registers 35/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. Structural risk reads 79/100 against active distress of 6/100. The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (79/100), construction/permit lag (70/100), institutional ownership (55/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (20/100) register low. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (100/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (94/100), FEMA disaster exposure (64/100).

The market reads peak — home values rose 2.8% year on year, and 5% higher over three years, at 26/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

About 49,593 people live here, median age 39. The typical home is worth about $589,900 (5.3× income). Vacancy runs 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. Rent burden reaches 41% of tenant households. The poverty rate is 9.9%. 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.