ZIP 98101 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

In King County, Washington, ZIP 98101 scores 35 of 100 for composite distress, a moderate level on DLRadar's public-record index. Its standout 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). The latent-versus-live split is 79/100 structural and 6/100 already moving.

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

At $128,143, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. The typical home is worth about $784,200 (5.8× income). The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 37/100. The vacancy rate is 14.8% — elevated. Around 71% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 16% of housing is owner-occupied. Around 32% of renters are cost-burdened. About 16,396 people live here, median age 34. The poverty rate is 11.3%. The ZIP holds roughly 13,585 housing units.

Net-net, 98101 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.