ZIP 98042 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
King County, Washington · Distress market
ZIP code 98042 in King County, Washington carries a composite property-distress score of 31/100 — a moderate reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. Property-level stress concentrates 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. The split runs 67/100 structural to 6/100 active on the ground. 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 6% higher over three years, at 16/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.
Median household income is $125,554, above the U.S. median near $78,000. Around 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The poverty rate is 4.1% — low. Vacancy runs 2.8%. Around 48% of renters are cost-burdened. A median home runs $658,500 here, or 4.9 times local income. Population is roughly 48,594 with a median age of 40. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 32/100. The ZIP holds roughly 17,629 housing units. 82% of housing is owner-occupied.
Net-net, 98042 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. Parcel-level detail for 98042 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced to public records.
No ZIP is too small to score: 98042 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. Sparse data for 98042 shows as blanks, never estimates, and the score updates on every fresh public filing.
The 31/100 figure for 98042 is a composite, not one metric: it rolls up foreclosure and pre-foreclosure activity, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, local lender headwind, and structural risk into a single reading, which is why a ZIP can look calm on price yet score high on distress. Treat 98042 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.
What is driving ZIP 98042’s distress
Delinquency on tax, investor concentration, insurance pressure, NFIP flood, lagging construction, price dislocation and sale velocity — and the 0 individual distressed properties are listed in full, with owner, address, APN, per-parcel score and exit-velocity read.
98042 at a glance
Real-time distress, cycle phase, housing and bank-stress readings for 98042, the same set carried on every parcel.
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