ZIP 98168 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP code 98168 in King County, Washington carries a composite property-distress score of 30/100 — a moderate reading on DLRadar's deterministic distress index. Structural risk reads 66/100 against active distress of 6/100. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (100/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (95/100), FEMA disaster exposure (74/100)). Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (66/100), institutional ownership (60/100), mortgage stress (20/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (20/100) and construction/permit lag (9/100) register low.

The market reads peak — home values held roughly flat year on year, and 9% higher over three years, at 16/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

The ZIP holds roughly 13,111 housing units. The tenure split is 53% owner-occupied to 47% rented. Population is roughly 34,814 with a median age of 38. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 41/100. Educational attainment sits at 24% bachelor's-or-above. The poverty rate is 14.5%. The vacancy rate is 6.3%. Around 43% of renters are cost-burdened. The typical home is worth about $548,000 (5.9× income). Median household income is $84,937, near the U.S. median near $78,000.

On balance 98168 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. There is no property file for 98168 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable records.

Whether 98168 runs hot or quiet, its 30/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 98168 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in King County, Washington or nationwide. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed as records update; 98168 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

98168's score blends several independent layers — foreclosure and mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, bank headwind and structural exposure — into one 0–100 number, so understanding the components matters as much as the headline for anyone screening the ZIP. For a buyer, 98168 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.