ZIP 98072 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
King County, Washington · High Value market
ZIP code 98072 in King County, Washington carries a composite property-distress score of 31/100 — a moderate reading on DLRadar's deterministic distress index. Latent structural risk is 67/100 while live distress already moving reads 6/100. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (99/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (95/100), FEMA disaster exposure (72/100)). The sharpest non-environmental signals are structural risk (67/100), institutional ownership (60/100), mortgage stress (20/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (20/100) and construction/permit lag (16/100) register low.
The market reads peak — home values held roughly flat year on year, and 11% higher over three years (phase confidence 16/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.
Home values center near $1,122,200, an affordability ratio of 6.1×. Around 68% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The tenure split is 74% owner-occupied to 26% rented. At $174,599, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. Population is roughly 24,922 with a median age of 42. The vacancy rate is 3.1%. 3.0% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. The ZIP holds roughly 9,784 housing units. Around 44% of renters are cost-burdened. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 32/100.
Net-net, 98072 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. There is no property file for 98072 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable records.
Big metro or rural, 98072 runs through one identical scoring model, so its 31/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in King County, Washington and the nation. 98072 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.
The 31/100 figure for 98072 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. Practically, 98072 works as a screen — verify the reading, drill to the specific parcels driving it, and carry the deal through capital and closing on the platform.
ZIP 98072 distress signals, scored
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