ZIP 98375 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Composite property distress in 98375 (Pierce County, Washington) lands at 29/100 — low on DLRadar's public-record scoring. Structural exposure scores 62 and live distress 6 on the 0–100 scale. The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (62/100), institutional ownership (59/100), mortgage stress (19/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (19/100) register low. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (99/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (92/100), FEMA disaster exposure (71/100).

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values held roughly flat over the trailing year, and 4% higher over three years (phase confidence 16/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

A median home runs $522,100 here, or 4.3 times local income. Vacancy runs 3.4%. The tenure split is 74% owner-occupied to 26% rented. Around 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 32,195 residents call 98375 home, typically aged 33. Around 43% of renters are cost-burdened. At $109,972, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. The poverty rate is 7.3% — low. There are about 10,620 housing units across 98375. On demographic stress specifically, 98375 scores 32/100.

On balance 98375 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. No parcel file is published for 98375 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

No ZIP is too small to score: 98375 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 29/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Where the public record is thin for 98375, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.

Behind 98375's composite sit distinct signals (foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender and structural), each scored on its own before rolling up, so two ZIPs with the same total can describe very different situations on the ground. The point of the 98375 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.