ZIP 98288 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 98288 (King County, Washington) at a moderate 35/100 for overall property distress. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (100/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (94/100), FEMA disaster exposure (64/100)). The latent-versus-live split is 79/100 structural and 6/100 already moving. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (79/100), construction/permit lag (70/100), institutional ownership (55/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (20/100).

The peak-phase market in 98288 posted values that rose 2.8% over the year (phase confidence 26/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

The vacancy rate is 71.9% — elevated. The ZIP holds roughly 369 housing units. Home values center near $450,000, an affordability ratio of 7.4× — stretched. Educational attainment sits at 33% bachelor's-or-above. Around 11% of renters are cost-burdened. Owners hold 70% of homes, renters 30%. Median household income is $59,583, below the U.S. median near $78,000. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 43/100. 11.9% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Population is roughly 201 with a median age of 49.

On the whole, 98288 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.