ZIP 98056 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP code 98056 in King County, Washington carries a composite property-distress score of 31/100 — a moderate reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. Structural risk reads 67/100 against active distress of 6/100. Its standout signals are structural risk (67/100), institutional ownership (63/100), mortgage stress (20/100). mortgage stress (20/100) and construction/permit lag (11/100) stay muted. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (100/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (94/100), FEMA disaster exposure (78/100).

The market reads peak — home values held roughly flat year on year, and 10% higher over three years, at 16/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

The typical home is worth about $797,300 (6.7× income). DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 39/100. Vacancy runs 5.7%. The ZIP holds roughly 15,342 housing units. Around 40% of renters are cost-burdened. Educational attainment sits at 44% bachelor's-or-above. Population is roughly 36,872 with a median age of 39. Roughly 7.1% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas. The tenure split is 55% owner-occupied to 45% rented. Households earn a median $108,596 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure.

On balance 98056 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. 98056 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

The 98056 read uses the identical public-record model applied coast to coast, which means its 31/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 98056 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of King County, Washington. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 98056, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

The 31/100 figure for 98056 is a composite, not one metric: it rolls up foreclosure and pre-foreclosure activity, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, local lender headwind, and structural risk into a single reading, which is why a ZIP can look calm on price yet score high on distress. The point of the 98056 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.