ZIP 98303 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Pierce County, Washington · High Vacancy market
DLRadar grades ZIP 98303 (Pierce County, Washington) at a moderate 30/100 for overall property distress. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (99/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (91/100), FEMA disaster exposure (68/100)). The split runs 65/100 structural to 6/100 active on the ground. The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (65/100), institutional ownership (57/100), mortgage stress (19/100). mortgage stress (19/100) and construction/permit lag (16/100) stay muted.
The market reads peak — home values held roughly flat year on year, and 42% higher over three years (phase confidence 16/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.
At $72,074, median income runs near typical U.S. levels. The typical home is worth about $546,300 (6.6× income). The poverty rate is 26.8% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. 1,341 residents call 98303 home, typically aged 61. There are about 1,112 housing units across 98303. Educational attainment sits at 35% bachelor's-or-above. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 34/100. 99% of housing is owner-occupied. Around 0% of renters are cost-burdened. Vacancy runs 23.3%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal.
Net-net, 98303 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. No parcel file is published for 98303 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.
The number is not local guesswork: 98303's 30/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. 98303 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.
98303's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. In workflow terms, 98303 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.
ZIP 98303 distress signals, scored
Tax arrears, institutional buyers, insurance load, flood exposure, stalled construction, dislocated pricing and auction velocity — together with the 0 individual distressed properties are listed in full, with owner, address, APN, per-parcel score and exit-velocity read.
The 98303 distress snapshot
Current distress, phase, housing and lender-pressure figures for 98303, drawn from the same report attached to each property.
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