ZIP 98349 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Pierce County, Washington · High Vacancy market
ZIP code 98349 in Pierce County, Washington carries a composite property-distress score of 30/100 — a moderate reading on DLRadar's deterministic distress index. The pressure is most legible in structural risk (65/100), institutional ownership (57/100), mortgage stress (19/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (19/100) and construction/permit lag (16/100). Latent structural risk is 65/100 while live distress already moving reads 6/100. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: 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 39% higher over three years (phase confidence 16/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.
Households earn a median $84,282 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure. 3.8% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Around 58% of renters are cost-burdened. About 23% have a four-year degree. The typical home is worth about $370,200 (4.3× income). About 5,021 people live here, median age 45. Owners hold 88% of homes, renters 12%. Vacancy runs 27.2%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 34/100. There are about 3,041 housing units across 98349.
Net-net, 98349 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.
The 98349 read uses the identical scoring model applied coast to coast, which means its 30/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 98349 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Pierce County, Washington. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed as records update; 98349 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.
98349'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, 98349 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.
Distress signal breakdown — ZIP 98349
Tax arrears, institutional buyers, insurance load, flood exposure, stalled construction, dislocated pricing and auction velocity — together with the 0 individual distressed properties are listed in full, with owner, address, APN, per-parcel score and exit-velocity read.
Snapshot: 98349 by the numbers
The live 98349 panel — distress score, market phase, housing and bank pressure — as attached to every individual property.
Neighbouring ZIPs in Pierce County
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By straight-line distance between ZIP centers — the surrounding market, whichever county or state line it crosses.
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The complete 98349 distress and acquisition report
The full 98349 file lists each distressed parcel with owner, address, APN, per-property score, bank exposure and exit-velocity read, and carries it straight through to owner and lender records. Refreshed continuously.
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