ZIP 98077 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

King County, Washington's ZIP 98077 registers 31/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (67/100), institutional ownership (62/100), mortgage stress (20/100). mortgage stress (20/100) and construction/permit lag (14/100) stay muted. On the structural side it scores 67/100, with 6/100 of stress already active. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (99/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (94/100), FEMA disaster exposure (77/100).

The peak-phase market in 98077 posted values that held roughly flat over the year, and 20% higher over three years (phase confidence 16/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

At $179,625, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. Around 63% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Rent burden reaches 44% of tenant households. Owners hold 91% of homes, renters 9%. On demographic stress specifically, 98077 scores 32/100. There are about 4,793 housing units across 98077. The poverty rate is 2.8% — low. Vacancy runs 1.8%. Population is roughly 14,407 with a median age of 44. A median home runs $1,206,400 here, or 6.3 times local income.

Net-net, 98077 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. While 98077 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.

Whether 98077 runs hot or quiet, its 31/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 98077 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in King County, Washington or nationwide. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 98077 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

The 31/100 for 98077 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. The point of the 98077 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.