ZIP 98030 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 98030 (King County, Washington) at a moderate 35/100 for overall property distress. Structural risk reads 79/100 against active distress of 6/100. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (79/100), construction/permit lag (70/100), institutional ownership (55/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (20/100). Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (100/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (94/100), FEMA disaster exposure (64/100)).

The peak-phase market in 98030 posted values that rose 2.8% over the year, and 7% higher over three years, at 26/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

Population is roughly 38,492 with a median age of 35. Vacancy runs 4.2%. Home values center near $582,400, an affordability ratio of 5.9×. 7.3% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. 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. Median household income is $91,218, above the U.S. median near $78,000.

On balance 98030 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.