ZIP 98338 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Pierce County, Washington · Distress market
In Pierce County, Washington, ZIP 98338 scores 29 of 100 for composite distress, a low level on DLRadar's public-record index. Its heaviest discrete signals: structural risk (62/100), institutional ownership (59/100), mortgage stress (19/100). mortgage stress (19/100) stay muted. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (99/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (92/100), FEMA disaster exposure (71/100). Structurally it carries 62/100, against 6/100 of stress already in motion.
The market reads peak — home values held roughly flat year on year, and 11% higher over three years, at 16/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.
Median household income is $112,788, above the U.S. median near $78,000. Around 31% of renters are cost-burdened. 6.9% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. A median home runs $509,600 here, or 4.2 times local income. Owners hold 84% of homes, renters 16%. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 30/100. Around 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The ZIP holds roughly 11,396 housing units. The vacancy rate is 5.1%. About 32,726 people live here, median age 37.
On balance 98338 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. 98338 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.
Whether 98338 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 98338 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Pierce County, Washington or nationwide. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 98338 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.
The 29/100 figure for 98338 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. The point of the 98338 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.
Distress signal breakdown — ZIP 98338
Delinquency on tax, investor concentration, insurance pressure, NFIP flood, lagging construction, price dislocation and sale velocity — and the 0 individual distressed properties are listed in full, with owner, address, APN, per-parcel score and exit-velocity read.
ZIP 98338 Stress Report snapshot
Current distress, phase, housing and lender-pressure figures for 98338, drawn from the same report attached to each property.
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