ZIP 98148 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 98148 (King County, Washington) at a moderate 35/100 for overall property distress. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (100/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (94/100), FEMA disaster exposure (64/100). Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (79/100), construction/permit lag (70/100), institutional ownership (55/100). mortgage stress (20/100) stay muted. Structural risk reads 79/100 against active distress of 6/100.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.8% over the trailing year, and 11% higher over three years, at 26/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

A median home runs $607,900 here, or 6.6 times local income. Vacancy runs 7.6%. 10,399 residents call 98148 home, typically aged 35. Roughly 6.8% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas. Households earn a median $86,994 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure. Rent burden reaches 36% of tenant households. There are about 4,469 housing units across 98148. About 28% have a four-year degree. The tenure split is 50% owner-occupied to 50% rented. On demographic stress specifically, 98148 scores 40/100.

Overall, 98148 shows a mixed profile — neither uniformly stressed nor insulated — so opportunity is property-specific. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.