ZIP 98104 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

King County, Washington's ZIP 98104 registers 35/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. Structural risk reads 79/100 against active distress of 6/100. The most distinctive pressure shows up in 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 market reads peak — home values rose 2.8% year on year, at 26/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

There are about 11,371 housing units across 98104. 8% of housing is owner-occupied. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 57/100. Rent burden reaches 37% of tenant households. The typical home is worth about $616,000 (10.7× income, severely stretched). The poverty rate is 27.8% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. About 15,870 people live here, median age 37. Around 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Vacancy runs 16.4%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. At $61,866, median income runs below typical U.S. levels.

Net-net, 98104 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.