ZIP 98321 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Pierce County, Washington · Distress market
DLRadar grades ZIP 98321 (Pierce County, Washington) at a moderate 30/100 for overall property distress. 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 split runs 65/100 structural to 6/100 active on the ground. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (99/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (91/100), FEMA disaster exposure (68/100)).
The market reads peak — home values held roughly flat year on year, and 11% higher over three years (phase confidence 16/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.
The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 30/100. Vacancy runs 4.3%. A median home runs $571,200 here, or 4.1 times local income. Rent burden reaches 46% of tenant households. Households earn a median $127,081 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. The ZIP holds roughly 6,347 housing units. 3.9% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. About 17,601 people live here, median age 41. Around 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 89% of housing is owner-occupied.
On balance 98321 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.
Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 98321's 30/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Pierce County, Washington or any ZIP coast to coast. 98321 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.
The 30/100 figure for 98321 is a composite, not one metric: it rolls up foreclosure and pre-foreclosure activity, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, local lender headwind, and structural risk into a single reading, which is why a ZIP can look calm on price yet score high on distress. For an operator, 98321 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.
Signal-by-signal read on 98321
Tax-delinquent parcels, institutional ownership, insurance strain, flood risk, construction lag, price dislocation and auction speed — plus the 0 individual distressed properties are listed in full, with owner, address, APN, per-parcel score and exit-velocity read.
ZIP 98321 Stress Report snapshot
Real-time distress, cycle phase, housing and bank-stress readings for 98321, the same set carried on every parcel.
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The complete 98321 distress and acquisition report
Every distressed parcel in 98321 comes with owner and address, APN, its own distress score, bank exposure and an exit-velocity read — plus a one-click path to owner and lender records, refreshed continuously nationwide.
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