ZIP 98304 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Pierce County, Washington · High Vacancy market
On DLRadar's 0-100 public-record scale, ZIP 98304 in Pierce County, Washington comes in at 29, a low composite-distress reading. Structural risk reads 63/100 against active distress of 6/100. Its heaviest discrete signals: structural risk (63/100), institutional ownership (59/100), mortgage stress (19/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (19/100) register low. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (99/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (92/100), FEMA disaster exposure (72/100)).
The peak-phase market in 98304 posted values that held roughly flat over the year, at 16/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.
A median home runs $312,900 here, or 3.1 times local income. Vacancy runs 56.4%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Population is roughly 867 with a median age of 55. Owners hold 83% of homes, renters 17%. Around 0% of renters are cost-burdened. About 30% have a four-year degree. There are about 793 housing units across 98304. On demographic stress specifically, 98304 scores 24/100. Roughly 1.8% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas. Median household income is $77,234, near the U.S. median near $78,000.
On the whole, 98304 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.
Big metro or rural, 98304 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 29/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Pierce County, Washington and the nation. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 98304 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.
The 29/100 for 98304 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. Treat 98304 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.
Distress signal breakdown — ZIP 98304
Delinquency on tax, investor concentration, insurance pressure, NFIP flood, lagging construction, price dislocation and sale velocity — and the 0 individual distressed properties are broken out by owner, address, APN, per-property score and exit read inside DLRadar.
ZIP 98304 Stress Report snapshot
The live 98304 panel — distress score, market phase, housing and bank pressure — as attached to every individual property.
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The complete 98304 distress and acquisition report
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