ZIP 98134 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 98134 (King County, Washington) at a moderate 35/100 for overall property distress. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (79/100), construction/permit lag (70/100), institutional ownership (55/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (20/100) register low. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (100/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (94/100), FEMA disaster exposure (64/100). The latent-versus-live split is 79/100 structural and 6/100 already moving.

The market reads peak — home values rose 2.8% year on year (phase confidence 26/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 46/100. The poverty rate is 44.5% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. At $66,119, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. Around 28% of renters are cost-burdened. The vacancy rate is 12.9% — elevated. 34% of housing is owner-occupied. Around 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. About 779 people live here, median age 37. The ZIP holds roughly 209 housing units. The typical home is worth about $345,800 (5.8× income).

Net-net, 98134 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.