ZIP 98055 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
King County, Washington · Distress market
Scored purely from public records, 98055 (King County, Washington) returns a moderate composite of 31/100. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (100/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (94/100), FEMA disaster exposure (78/100)). Structural risk reads 67/100 against active distress of 6/100. 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 market reads peak — home values held roughly flat year on year, and 6% higher over three years (phase confidence 16/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.
Households earn a median $100,207 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. Around 45% of renters are cost-burdened. About 39% have a four-year degree. A median home runs $602,800 here, or 5.6 times local income. 24,851 residents call 98055 home, typically aged 35. 56% of housing is owner-occupied. Roughly 7.8% live below the poverty line. There are about 9,942 housing units across 98055. On demographic stress specifically, 98055 scores 37/100. The vacancy rate is 2.6%.
On balance 98055 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. Parcel-level detail for 98055 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced to public records.
The number is not local guesswork: 98055's 31/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. 98055 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.
Behind 98055's composite sit distinct signals (foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender and structural), each scored on its own before rolling up, so two ZIPs with the same total can describe very different situations on the ground. For an operator, 98055 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.
Distress signal breakdown — ZIP 98055
Tax delinquency, institutional ownership, insurance pressure, NFIP/flood, construction lag, price dislocation and auction velocity — plus the 0 individual distressed properties — each with owner, address, APN, its own distress score and an exit read — are in the full report.
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