ZIP 98118 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
King County, Washington · High Value market
On DLRadar's 0-100 distress scale, ZIP 98118 in King County, Washington comes in at 30, a moderate composite-distress reading. 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. The split runs 66/100 structural to 6/100 active on the ground. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (100/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (95/100), FEMA disaster exposure (74/100).
Prices here sit in a peak phase: values held roughly flat over the trailing year, and 3% higher over three years (phase confidence 16/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.
Rent burden reaches 41% of tenant households. 49,560 residents call 98118 home, typically aged 38. At $109,085, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 40/100. 11.9% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Educational attainment sits at 49% bachelor's-or-above. 57% of housing is owner-occupied. Vacancy runs 6.2%. A median home runs $810,500 here, or 6.8 times local income. There are about 20,459 housing units across 98118.
Net-net, 98118 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. There is no property file for 98118 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable records.
The number is not local guesswork: 98118's 30/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 98118, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.
98118's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. For an operator, 98118 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.
Distress signal breakdown — ZIP 98118
Delinquency on tax, investor concentration, insurance pressure, NFIP flood, lagging construction, price dislocation and sale velocity — and the 0 individual distressed properties — each with owner, address, APN, its own distress score and an exit read — are in the full report.
ZIP 98118 Stress Report snapshot
Live ZIP-level distress, market-phase, housing and bank-pressure read — the same report attached to every property.
Neighbouring ZIPs in King County
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More distress data near 98118
Further distress data across King County, Washington at ZIP, county and state level.
Unlock parcel-level detail for ZIP 98118
The full 98118 file lists each distressed parcel with owner, address, APN, per-property score, bank exposure and exit-velocity read, and carries it straight through to owner and lender records. Refreshed continuously.
Each signal above is traceable to an open dataset · methodology