ZIP 98224 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 98224 (King County, Washington) at a moderate 35/100 for overall property distress. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (79/100), construction/permit lag (70/100), institutional ownership (55/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (20/100) register low. On the structural side it scores 79/100, with 6/100 of stress already active. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (100/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (94/100), FEMA disaster exposure (64/100).

The market reads peak — home values rose 2.8% year on year (phase confidence 26/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

The ZIP holds roughly 224 housing units. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 37/100. At $86,477, median income runs near typical U.S. levels. The vacancy rate is 62.0% — elevated. Around 0% of renters are cost-burdened. 96% of housing is owner-occupied. Around 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The typical home is worth about $687,500 (7.0× income). The poverty rate is 12.0%. About 192 people live here, median age 58.

Net-net, 98224 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.

35/100
Composite stress
79/100
Structural risk
6/100
Distress activity

Distress signal breakdown — ZIP 98224

Foreclosure activity0
Mortgage stress20
Climate / FEMA risk100
+9 more distress dimensions scored for this ZIP

Tax delinquency, institutional ownership, insurance pressure, NFIP/flood, construction lag, price dislocation and auction velocity — plus the 0 individual distressed properties (owner, address, APN, per-property score and exit read) are in the full DLRadar report.

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