ZIP 98051 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
King County, Washington · High Value market
Scored on a fixed 0-100 scale, 98051 (King County, Washington) returns a moderate composite of 30/100. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (100/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (95/100), FEMA disaster exposure (74/100). Structural risk reads 66/100 against active distress of 6/100. What sets it apart are the readings on structural risk (66/100), institutional ownership (60/100), mortgage stress (20/100). mortgage stress (20/100) and construction/permit lag (9/100) stay muted.
The peak-phase market in 98051 posted values that held roughly flat over the year, and 12% higher over three years (phase confidence 16/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.
At $114,868, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. The poverty rate is 4.4% — low. 85% of housing is owner-occupied. Educational attainment sits at 31% bachelor's-or-above. Around 29% of renters are cost-burdened. The vacancy rate is 0.0%. On demographic stress specifically, 98051 scores 33/100. A median home runs $790,500 here, or 6.1 times local income. Population is roughly 3,555 with a median age of 44. The ZIP holds roughly 1,222 housing units.
On balance 98051 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. There is no property file for 98051 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable records.
Big metro or rural, 98051 runs through one identical scoring model, so its 30/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in King County, Washington and the nation. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 98051 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.
Each component behind 98051 - foreclosure, mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, lender pullback, structural exposure - is graded on its own before the 30/100 roll-up. Practically, 98051 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.
Signal-by-signal read on 98051
Tax delinquency, institutional ownership, insurance pressure, NFIP/flood, construction lag, price dislocation and auction velocity — plus the 0 individual distressed properties are broken out by owner, address, APN, per-property score and exit read inside DLRadar.
ZIP 98051 Stress Report snapshot
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