ZIP 98391 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Composite property distress in 98391 (Pierce County, Washington) lands at 30/100 — moderate on DLRadar's distress scoring. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (99/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (91/100), FEMA disaster exposure (68/100). The sharpest non-environmental signals are 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. The split runs 65/100 structural to 6/100 active on the ground.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values held roughly flat over the trailing year, and 8% higher over three years, at 16/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

57,691 residents call 98391 home, typically aged 37. Vacancy runs 3.6%. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 30/100. Median household income is $129,233, above the U.S. median near $78,000. The typical home is worth about $626,800 (4.5× income). Around 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Owners hold 86% of homes, renters 14%. The ZIP holds roughly 21,222 housing units. Around 38% of renters are cost-burdened. The poverty rate is 3.8% — low.

On balance 98391 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. 98391 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

Big metro or rural, 98391 runs through one identical scoring model, so its 30/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Pierce County, Washington and the nation. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 98391 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

98391'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. For a buyer, 98391 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.