ZIP 98329 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Pierce County, Washington · Distress market
DLRadar grades ZIP 98329 (Pierce County, Washington) at a moderate 30/100 for overall property distress. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (99/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (91/100), FEMA disaster exposure (68/100). Structurally it carries 65/100, against 6/100 of stress already in motion. Its heaviest discrete signals: structural risk (65/100), institutional ownership (56/100), mortgage stress (19/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (19/100) and construction/permit lag (16/100).
Prices here sit in a peak phase: values held roughly flat over the trailing year, and 11% higher over three years, at 16/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.
Median household income is $107,675, above the U.S. median near $78,000. There are about 4,638 housing units across 98329. 5.3% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Owners hold 88% of homes, renters 12%. Educational attainment sits at 29% bachelor's-or-above. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 31/100. Home values center near $518,700, an affordability ratio of 4.4×. Population is roughly 11,379 with a median age of 43. Rent burden reaches 49% of tenant households. Vacancy runs 4.4%.
Overall, 98329 shows a mixed profile — neither uniformly stressed nor insulated — so opportunity is property-specific. There is no property file for 98329 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable records.
Big metro or rural, 98329 runs through one identical scoring model, so its 30/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Pierce County, Washington and the nation. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 98329, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.
98329'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. In workflow terms, 98329 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.
ZIP 98329 distress signals, scored
Tax-delinquent parcels, institutional ownership, insurance strain, flood risk, construction lag, price dislocation and auction speed — plus the 0 individual distressed properties — each with owner, address, APN, its own distress score and an exit read — are in the full report.
Snapshot: 98329 by the numbers
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