ZIP 98056 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

ZIP code 98056 in King County, Washington carries a composite property-distress score of 35/100 — a moderate reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. Structural risk reads 79/100 against active distress of 6/100. What sets it apart are the readings on structural risk (79/100), construction/permit lag (70/100), institutional ownership (55/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (20/100) register low. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (100/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (94/100), FEMA disaster exposure (64/100).

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

The typical home is worth about $797,300 (6.7× income). The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 39/100. Vacancy runs 5.7%. There are about 15,342 housing units across 98056. Rent burden reaches 40% of tenant households. Around 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. About 36,872 people live here, median age 39. The poverty rate is 7.1% — low. 55% of housing is owner-occupied. At $108,596, median income runs above typical U.S. levels.

Net-net, 98056 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.