ZIP 98146 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

ZIP code 98146 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 exposure scores 79 and live distress 6 on the 0–100 scale.

The market reads peak — home values rose 2.8% year on year, and 6% higher over three years, at 26/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

About 28,182 people live here, median age 40. Around 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The typical home is worth about $679,500 (5.9× income). 67% of housing is owner-occupied. At $108,460, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. There are about 11,049 housing units across 98146. Vacancy runs 4.4%. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 37/100. The poverty rate is 11.4%. Rent burden reaches 38% of tenant households.

Net-net, 98146 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.