ZIP 98118 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

King County, Washington's ZIP 98118 registers 35/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (79/100), construction/permit lag (70/100), institutional ownership (55/100). mortgage stress (20/100) stay muted. On the structural side it scores 79/100, with 6/100 of stress already active. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (100/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (94/100), FEMA disaster exposure (64/100).

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.8% over the trailing year, and 3% higher over three years (phase confidence 26/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

Around 41% of renters are cost-burdened. 49,560 residents call 98118 home, typically aged 38. Households earn a median $109,085 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. On demographic stress specifically, 98118 scores 40/100. Roughly 11.9% live below the poverty line. About 49% have a four-year degree. The tenure split is 57% owner-occupied to 43% rented. The vacancy rate is 6.2%. A median home runs $810,500 here, or 6.8 times local income. The ZIP holds roughly 20,459 housing units.

Overall, 98118 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.