Pierce County, WA: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Pierce County, WA, Washington: 60 ZIP codes scored, Pierce County, WA averaging 30/100 (moderate, Pierce, WA). Pierce County, WA is in its peak phase (Pierce, WA confidence 16/100): Pierce, WA home prices up 0.4% (Pierce, WA) over twelve months. Pierce County, WA lender headwind: 48/100.
Highest-scoring Pierce County, WA ZIPs: 98022 (30/100), 98047 (30/100), 98092 (30/100), 98303 (30/100), 98304 (30/100), 98321 (30/100). Also scored in Pierce County, WA: 98323, 98327, 98328, 98329, 98330, 98332, 98333, 98335, 98338, 98349.
Across Pierce County, WA's scored ZIPs: median home value $553,735, household income $99,481, 8.9% vacancy, 10.5% poverty, 66% owner-occupied, median age 39.0.
Pierce County, WA insurance distress 78/100 (#437 in the US); FEMA hazard 68/100 for Pierce, WA; 4 federal disaster declarations in Pierce County, WA since 2023 (4 flood); 38 Pierce, WA NFIP flood claims, $1.7M paid; Pierce, WA construction distress 16/100.
22 banks with 125 branches lend in Pierce County, WA; Pierce, WA weighted bank stress 64/100, highest 99/100 in Pierce, WA.
Pierce County, WA unemployment 5.1% (Pierce, WA -1.0 pts, six months); 5,339 new housing units permitted in Pierce County, WA over twelve months, Pierce, WA up 34% from 3,976; Pierce, WA home prices +6.7% a year (Pierce, WA) over three years.
369,709 housing units in Pierce County, WA; 122,063 Pierce, WA renter households; 50% of Pierce, WA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 23% (Pierce, WA) half or more.
Pierce County, WA ranks #2,523 nationally on the opportunity index (Pierce, WA, among all ranked counties); Pierce, WA scores 25.8/100 and Pierce, WA sits #32 inside Washington. Pierce, WA is in the weak opportunity phase; Pierce, WA's primary driver is bank institutional, Pierce, WA second driver listings discount; Pierce, WA moved up 288 places. 245 short-sale listings across Pierce, WA; 84 days on market observed in Pierce, WA; 5.0% vacancy over 60 Pierce, WA ZIPs.
0.9% of Pierce County, WA mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Pierce, WA's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 1.4% (CFPB county sample). Pierce, WA's ninety-day rate is up 0.2 points on twelve months earlier; the Pierce, WA peak since 2008 was 6.2% in March 2012; Washington overall reads 0.6%.
Pierce County, WA has 10 watched banks; 10 Pierce, WA banks sit in an elevated band. Pierce, WA footprints: Heritage Bank (11 branches, stress 58) in Pierce, WA; Timberland Bank (6 branches, stress 50) in Pierce, WA; Commencement Bank (3 branches, stress 74) in Pierce, WA.
HUD lists 29 assisted multifamily properties in Pierce County, WA with 2,374 units; 936 Pierce, WA units are assisted, 8 Pierce, WA properties under project-based Section 8.
18,379 of the 369,709 housing units in Pierce, WA sit vacant. Pierce County, WA permitted 3,511 multifamily units in twelve months; Pierce, WA's one-to-four unit structures added 1,828 units in Pierce County, WA.