ZIP 98052 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

King County, Washington's ZIP 98052 registers 31/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. 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). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (20/100) and construction/permit lag (11/100). Latent structural risk is 67/100 while live distress already moving reads 6/100.

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). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

The typical home is worth about $1,180,600 (6.7× income). The vacancy rate is 5.4%. 79,074 residents call 98052 home, typically aged 35. 47% of housing is owner-occupied. 5.6% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Rent burden reaches 27% of tenant households. Households earn a median $164,848 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. There are about 36,226 housing units across 98052. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 34/100. Around 75% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher.

Net-net, 98052 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.

The number is not local guesswork: 98052's 31/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. Where the public record is thin for 98052, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.

98052's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. In workflow terms, 98052 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.