ZIP 98103 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
King County, Washington · High Value market
ZIP 98103's composite property-distress score is 30/100 - DLRadar classes that as moderate for King County, Washington. What sets it apart are the readings on structural risk (66/100), institutional ownership (60/100), mortgage stress (20/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (20/100) and construction/permit lag (9/100) register low. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (100/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (95/100), FEMA disaster exposure (74/100). Latent structural risk is 66/100 while live distress already moving reads 6/100.
The peak-phase market in 98103 posted values that held roughly flat over the year, and 3% higher over three years (phase confidence 16/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.
Vacancy runs 6.3%. Owners hold 45% of homes, renters 55%. Households earn a median $127,372 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. Around 77% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Rent burden reaches 31% of tenant households. 51,988 residents call 98103 home, typically aged 35. 6.2% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. On demographic stress specifically, 98103 scores 38/100. There are about 28,631 housing units across 98103. Home values center near $1,044,100, an affordability ratio of 8.0× — stretched.
On balance 98103 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. Parcel-level detail for 98103 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced.
No ZIP is too small to score: 98103 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 30/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Sparse data for 98103 shows as blanks, never estimates, and the score updates on every fresh public filing.
98103's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. The point of the 98103 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.
What is driving ZIP 98103’s distress
Tax arrears, institutional buyers, insurance load, flood exposure, stalled construction, dislocated pricing and auction velocity — together with the 0 individual distressed properties — each with owner, address, APN, its own distress score and an exit read — are in the full report.
98103 at a glance
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