ZIP 98126 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
King County, Washington · High Value market
In King County, Washington, ZIP 98126 scores 30 of 100 for composite distress, a moderate level on DLRadar's distress index. Latent structural risk is 66/100 while live distress already moving reads 6/100. Its heaviest discrete signals: structural risk (66/100), institutional ownership (60/100), mortgage stress (20/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (20/100) and construction/permit lag (9/100). Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (100/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (95/100), FEMA disaster exposure (74/100).
The peak-phase market in 98126 posted values that held roughly flat over the year, and 7% higher over three years (phase confidence 16/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.
Vacancy runs 7.1%. Households earn a median $114,030 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. A median home runs $783,700 here, or 6.6 times local income. The ZIP holds roughly 11,029 housing units. The tenure split is 60% owner-occupied to 40% rented. On demographic stress specifically, 98126 scores 36/100. Population is roughly 22,433 with a median age of 38. Educational attainment sits at 60% bachelor's-or-above. Rent burden reaches 37% of tenant households. 9.2% of residents fall below the poverty threshold.
Net-net, 98126 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.
Big metro or rural, 98126 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. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 98126 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.
Behind 98126's composite sit distinct signals (foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender and structural), each scored on its own before rolling up, so two ZIPs with the same total can describe very different situations on the ground. For a buyer, 98126 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.
ZIP 98126 distress signals, scored
Unpaid tax, corporate ownership share, insurance cost pressure, NFIP flood risk, construction slowdown, price gaps and auction turnover — plus the 0 individual distressed properties — each with owner, address, APN, its own distress score and an exit read — are in the full report.
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