ZIP 98102 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 98102 (King County, Washington) at a moderate 35/100 for overall property distress. Structural exposure scores 79 and live distress 6 on the 0–100 scale. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (79/100), construction/permit lag (70/100), institutional ownership (55/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (20/100). Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (100/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (94/100), FEMA disaster exposure (64/100)).

The peak-phase market in 98102 posted values that rose 2.8% over the year, and 7% lower over three years, at 26/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

Vacancy runs 6.0%. Owners hold 26% of homes, renters 74%. Population is roughly 26,583 with a median age of 33. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 43/100. 9.3% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. There are about 18,488 housing units across 98102. Home values center near $963,200, an affordability ratio of 8.6× — stretched. Rent burden reaches 32% of tenant households. Median household income is $114,395, above the U.S. median near $78,000. Educational attainment sits at 79% bachelor's-or-above.

On balance 98102 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.