ZIP 98034 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

On DLRadar's 0-100 public-record scale, ZIP 98034 in King County, Washington comes in at 31, a moderate composite-distress reading. The latent-versus-live split is 67/100 structural and 6/100 already moving. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (100/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (94/100), FEMA disaster exposure (78/100). The sharpest non-environmental signals are structural risk (67/100), institutional ownership (63/100), mortgage stress (20/100). mortgage stress (20/100) and construction/permit lag (11/100) stay muted.

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

The vacancy rate is 5.4%. 61% of housing is owner-occupied. The typical home is worth about $946,300 (6.8× income). Educational attainment sits at 58% bachelor's-or-above. The ZIP holds roughly 23,095 housing units. Households earn a median $128,974 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. About 51,836 people live here, median age 37. The poverty rate is 5.9% — low. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 36/100. Rent burden reaches 33% of tenant households.

Overall, 98034 shows a mixed profile — neither uniformly stressed nor insulated — so opportunity is property-specific. No parcel file is published for 98034 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

The 98034 read uses the identical public-record model applied coast to coast, which means its 31/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 98034 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of King County, Washington. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 98034 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

98034'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. Practically, 98034 works as a screen — verify the reading, drill to the specific parcels driving it, and carry the deal through capital and closing on the platform.