ZIP 98053 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 98053 (King County, Washington) at a moderate 35/100 for overall property distress. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (100/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (94/100), FEMA disaster exposure (64/100). The latent-versus-live split is 79/100 structural and 6/100 already moving. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (79/100), construction/permit lag (70/100), institutional ownership (55/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (20/100) register low.

The market reads peak — home values rose 2.8% year on year, and 10% higher over three years (phase confidence 26/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

The vacancy rate is 3.3%. The poverty rate is 5.0% — low. At $179,912, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. Around 72% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. About 22,838 people live here, median age 44. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 33/100. The ZIP holds roughly 8,563 housing units. 87% of housing is owner-occupied. Around 49% of renters are cost-burdened. The typical home is worth about $1,213,600 (6.4× income).

Net-net, 98053 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.