ZIP 98166 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 98166 (King County, Washington) at a moderate 35/100 for overall property distress. Structural risk reads 79/100 against active distress of 6/100. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (79/100), construction/permit lag (70/100), institutional ownership (55/100). mortgage stress (20/100) stay muted. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (100/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (94/100), FEMA disaster exposure (64/100).

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.8% over the trailing year, and 10% higher over three years, at 26/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

22,001 residents call 98166 home, typically aged 44. Rent burden reaches 44% of tenant households. A median home runs $824,400 here, or 7.0 times local income. The tenure split is 67% owner-occupied to 33% rented. About 46% have a four-year degree. There are about 9,823 housing units across 98166. On demographic stress specifically, 98166 scores 39/100. Roughly 8.7% live below the poverty line. Vacancy runs 7.2%. Households earn a median $112,191 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure.

Overall, 98166 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.