ZIP 98391 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 98391 (Pierce County, Washington) at a moderate 31/100 for overall property distress. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (99/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (92/100). Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (67/100), institutional ownership (52/100), construction/permit lag (30/100). construction/permit lag (30/100) and mortgage stress (19/100) stay muted. Structural exposure scores 67 and live distress 6 on the 0–100 scale.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.8% over the trailing year, and 8% higher over three years, at 26/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

57,691 residents call 98391 home, typically aged 37. Vacancy runs 3.6%. On demographic stress specifically, 98391 scores 30/100. Households earn a median $129,233 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. A median home runs $626,800 here, or 4.5 times local income. About 32% have a four-year degree. The tenure split is 86% owner-occupied to 14% rented. There are about 21,222 housing units across 98391. Rent burden reaches 38% of tenant households. Roughly 3.8% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas.

Overall, 98391 shows a mixed profile — neither uniformly stressed nor insulated — so opportunity is property-specific. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.