ZIP 98178 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Composite property distress in 98178 (King County, Washington) lands at 30/100 — moderate on DLRadar's distress scoring. Its standout signals 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). Latent structural risk is 66/100 while live distress already moving reads 6/100. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (100/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (95/100), FEMA disaster exposure (74/100).

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values held roughly flat over the trailing year, and 4% higher over three years, at 16/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

There are about 9,988 housing units across 98178. Home values center near $660,400, an affordability ratio of 6.7×. Roughly 11.6% live below the poverty line. Around 49% of renters are cost-burdened. On demographic stress specifically, 98178 scores 41/100. Vacancy runs 5.5%. Around 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Population is roughly 25,929 with a median age of 41. At $93,786, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. Owners hold 65% of homes, renters 35%.

Net-net, 98178 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. No parcel file is published for 98178 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

Big metro or rural, 98178 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. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 98178 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

Each component behind 98178 - foreclosure, mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, lender pullback, structural exposure - is graded on its own before the 30/100 roll-up. Practically, 98178 works as a screen — verify the reading, drill to the specific parcels driving it, and carry the deal through capital and closing on the platform.