ZIP 98117 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

King County, Washington's ZIP 98117 registers 30/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (100/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (95/100), FEMA disaster exposure (74/100). The pressure is most legible in structural risk (66/100), institutional ownership (60/100), mortgage stress (20/100). mortgage stress (20/100) and construction/permit lag (9/100) stay muted. Structurally it carries 66/100, against 6/100 of stress already in motion.

The market reads peak — home values held roughly flat year on year, and 3% higher over three years (phase confidence 16/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

A median home runs $1,043,500 here, or 5.6 times local income. 4.6% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. The vacancy rate is 4.2%. The ZIP holds roughly 15,725 housing units. Around 75% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Rent burden reaches 22% of tenant households. About 35,147 people live here, median age 40. Median household income is $182,500, above the U.S. median near $78,000. 71% of housing is owner-occupied. On demographic stress specifically, 98117 scores 27/100.

On balance 98117 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. No parcel file is published for 98117 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

Big metro or rural, 98117 runs through one identical scoring model, so its 30/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in King County, Washington and the nation. Where the record is thin for 98117, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.

98117's score blends several independent layers — foreclosure and mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, bank headwind and structural exposure — into one 0–100 number, so understanding the components matters as much as the headline for anyone screening the ZIP. Practically, 98117 works as a screen — verify the reading, drill to the specific parcels driving it, and carry the deal through capital and closing on the platform.