ZIP 98371 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Pierce County, Washington · Distress market
Composite property distress in 98371 (Pierce County, Washington) lands at 30/100 — moderate on DLRadar's distress scoring. The split runs 65/100 structural to 6/100 active on the ground. What sets it apart are the readings on structural risk (65/100), institutional ownership (57/100), mortgage stress (19/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (19/100) and construction/permit lag (16/100) register low. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — 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 8% higher over three years, at 16/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.
Owners hold 69% of homes, renters 31%. The vacancy rate is 5.2%. Rent burden reaches 38% of tenant households. 8.3% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Population is roughly 23,989 with a median age of 39. On demographic stress specifically, 98371 scores 35/100. A median home runs $556,800 here, or 5.3 times local income. The ZIP holds roughly 10,231 housing units. Around 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. At $97,290, median income runs above typical U.S. levels.
Net-net, 98371 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. There is no property file for 98371 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable records.
The number is not local guesswork: 98371's 30/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 98371 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.
The 30/100 figure for 98371 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. Practically, 98371 works as a screen — verify the reading, drill to the specific parcels driving it, and carry the deal through capital and closing on the platform.
What is driving ZIP 98371’s distress
Unpaid tax, corporate ownership share, insurance cost pressure, NFIP flood risk, construction slowdown, price gaps and auction turnover — plus the 0 individual distressed properties are broken out by owner, address, APN, per-property score and exit read inside DLRadar.
Snapshot: 98371 by the numbers
Real-time distress, cycle phase, housing and bank-stress readings for 98371, the same set carried on every parcel.
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