ZIP 98332 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 98332 (Pierce County, Washington) at a moderate 31/100 for overall property distress. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (99/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (92/100). The latent-versus-live split is 67/100 structural and 6/100 already moving. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (67/100), institutional ownership (52/100), construction/permit lag (30/100). By contrast, construction/permit lag (30/100) and mortgage stress (19/100) register low.

The market reads peak — home values rose 2.8% year on year, and 11% higher over three years (phase confidence 26/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

At $122,827, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. The poverty rate is 5.1% — low. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 31/100. The vacancy rate is 3.5%. The ZIP holds roughly 7,864 housing units. Around 52% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Around 41% of renters are cost-burdened. About 19,784 people live here, median age 48. 82% of housing is owner-occupied. The typical home is worth about $748,200 (5.6× income).

Net-net, 98332 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.