ZIP 98055 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

King County, Washington's ZIP 98055 registers 35/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (100/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (94/100), FEMA disaster exposure (64/100). On the structural side it scores 79/100, with 6/100 of stress already active. The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (79/100), construction/permit lag (70/100), institutional ownership (55/100). mortgage stress (20/100) stay muted.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.8% over the trailing year, and 6% higher over three years (phase confidence 26/100). 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. The tenure split is 56% owner-occupied to 44% rented. Roughly 7.8% live below the poverty line. The ZIP holds roughly 9,942 housing units. On demographic stress specifically, 98055 scores 37/100. The vacancy rate is 2.6%.

Overall, 98055 shows a mixed profile — neither uniformly stressed nor insulated — so opportunity is property-specific. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.