ZIP 98030 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

King County, Washington's ZIP 98030 registers 30/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. Structural exposure scores 66 and live distress 6 on the 0–100 scale. The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (66/100), institutional ownership (60/100), mortgage stress (20/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (20/100) and construction/permit lag (9/100) register low. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (100/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (95/100), FEMA disaster exposure (74/100).

The market reads peak — home values held roughly flat year on year, and 7% higher over three years (phase confidence 16/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

38,492 residents call 98030 home, typically aged 35. The vacancy rate is 4.2%. The typical home is worth about $582,400 (5.9× income). Roughly 7.3% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 39/100. Rent burden reaches 39% of tenant households. Owners hold 53% of homes, renters 47%. Educational attainment sits at 28% bachelor's-or-above. There are about 13,736 housing units across 98030. At $91,218, median income runs above typical U.S. levels.

Overall, 98030 shows a mixed profile — neither uniformly stressed nor insulated — so opportunity is property-specific. Parcel-level detail for 98030 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced.

The 98030 read uses the identical scoring model applied coast to coast, which means its 30/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 98030 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of King County, Washington. Where the record is thin for 98030, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.

98030'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, 98030 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.