ZIP 98119 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

ZIP code 98119 in King County, Washington carries a composite property-distress score of 35/100 — a moderate reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (100/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (94/100), FEMA disaster exposure (64/100). What sets it apart are the readings on structural risk (79/100), construction/permit lag (70/100), institutional ownership (55/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (20/100) register low. Structural risk reads 79/100 against active distress of 6/100.

The market reads peak — home values rose 2.8% year on year, and 5% higher over three years, at 26/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

There are about 15,869 housing units across 98119. The typical home is worth about $1,047,600 (8.3× income, severely stretched). 39% of housing is owner-occupied. Around 72% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Rent burden reaches 26% of tenant households. Vacancy runs 9.5%. At $125,021, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 40/100. About 26,390 people live here, median age 34. The poverty rate is 7.1% — low.

Net-net, 98119 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.