ZIP 98327 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

DLRadar grades ZIP 98327 (Pierce County, Washington) at a low 29/100 for overall property distress. Its heaviest discrete signals: structural risk (62/100), institutional ownership (59/100), mortgage stress (19/100). mortgage stress (19/100) stay muted. Structural risk reads 62/100 against active distress of 6/100. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (99/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (92/100), FEMA disaster exposure (71/100)).

The peak-phase market in 98327 posted values that held roughly flat over the year, and 37% higher over three years, at 16/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

Households earn a median $114,423 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. Around 55% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Roughly 3.6% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas. A median home runs $583,600 here, or 4.8 times local income. Around 27% of renters are cost-burdened. There are about 3,948 housing units across 98327. The tenure split is 61% owner-occupied to 39% rented. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 29/100. About 9,952 people live here, median age 35. The vacancy rate is 3.6%.

On balance 98327 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. 98327 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

Whether 98327 runs hot or quiet, its 29/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 98327 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Pierce County, Washington or nationwide. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 98327 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

98327's score blends several independent layers — foreclosure and mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, bank headwind and structural exposure — into one 0–100 number, so understanding the components matters as much as the headline for anyone screening the ZIP. Treat 98327 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.