ZIP 98116 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
King County, Washington · High Value market
DLRadar grades ZIP 98116 (King County, Washington) at a moderate 30/100 for overall property distress. The sharpest non-environmental signals are structural risk (66/100), institutional ownership (60/100), mortgage stress (20/100). mortgage stress (20/100) and construction/permit lag (9/100) stay muted. On the structural side it scores 66/100, with 6/100 of stress already active. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (100/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (95/100), FEMA disaster exposure (74/100).
The peak-phase market in 98116 posted values that held roughly flat over the year, and 12% higher over three years, at 16/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.
At $130,504, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. Rent burden reaches 35% of tenant households. Around 69% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Population is roughly 28,091 with a median age of 41. 4.7% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Home values center near $973,400, an affordability ratio of 7.0× — stretched. The ZIP holds roughly 15,073 housing units. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 36/100. The vacancy rate is 8.6%. 54% of housing is owner-occupied.
Overall, 98116 shows a mixed profile — neither uniformly stressed nor insulated — so opportunity is property-specific. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.
The number is not local guesswork: 98116's 30/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. 98116 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.
Each component behind 98116 - foreclosure, mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, lender pullback, structural exposure - is graded on its own before the 30/100 roll-up. For a buyer, 98116 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.
ZIP 98116 distress signals, scored
Delinquency on tax, investor concentration, insurance pressure, NFIP flood, lagging construction, price dislocation and sale velocity — and the 0 individual distressed properties carry owner, address, APN, a parcel-level score and an exit read in the full DLRadar file.
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