ZIP 98136 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

King County, Washington's ZIP 98136 registers 30/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. Leading the profile are 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). It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (100/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (95/100), FEMA disaster exposure (74/100). On the structural side it scores 66/100, with 6/100 of stress already active.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values held roughly flat over the trailing year, and 12% higher over three years (phase confidence 16/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

Median household income is $153,636, above the U.S. median near $78,000. The ZIP holds roughly 8,345 housing units. The poverty rate is 6.1% — low. About 67% have a four-year degree. On demographic stress specifically, 98136 scores 32/100. About 17,299 people live here, median age 40. Rent burden reaches 37% of tenant households. A median home runs $925,000 here, or 5.9 times local income. The tenure split is 64% owner-occupied to 36% rented. The vacancy rate is 5.1%.

Net-net, 98136 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. No parcel file is published for 98136 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

Big metro or rural, 98136 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. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 98136, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

Behind 98136'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 an operator, 98136 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.