ZIP 98121 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

DLRadar grades ZIP 98121 (King County, Washington) at a moderate 31/100 for overall property distress. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (100/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (95/100), FEMA disaster exposure (84/100). The split runs 67/100 structural to 6/100 active on the ground. The sharpest non-environmental signals are structural risk (67/100), institutional ownership (62/100), mortgage stress (20/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (20/100) and construction/permit lag (9/100).

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values held roughly flat over the trailing year (phase confidence 16/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

There are about 16,684 housing units across 98121. The poverty rate is 8.7%. Educational attainment sits at 78% bachelor's-or-above. Owners hold 25% of homes, renters 75%. Around 26% of renters are cost-burdened. A median home runs $848,400 here, or 5.3 times local income. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 33/100. The vacancy rate is 12.3% — elevated. Median household income is $148,974, above the U.S. median near $78,000. 20,904 residents call 98121 home, typically aged 33.

On the whole, 98121 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. No parcel file is published for 98121 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

Big metro or rural, 98121 runs through one identical scoring model, so its 31/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in King County, Washington and the nation. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 98121 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

98121's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. For a buyer, 98121 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.