ZIP 98059 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Composite property distress in 98059 (King County, Washington) lands at 35/100 — moderate on DLRadar's public-record scoring. The sharpest non-environmental signals are 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). On the structural side it scores 79/100, with 6/100 of stress already active.

The market reads peak — home values rose 2.8% year on year, and 12% higher over three years (phase confidence 26/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

The poverty rate is 4.1% — low. 78% of housing is owner-occupied. At $134,336, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. Around 39% of renters are cost-burdened. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 33/100. The ZIP holds roughly 14,926 housing units. The vacancy rate is 2.4%. The typical home is worth about $872,000 (6.0× income). Around 51% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. About 41,639 people live here, median age 38.

Net-net, 98059 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.