ZIP 98404 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 98404 (Pierce County, Washington) at a moderate 31/100 for overall property distress. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (99/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (92/100). On the structural side it scores 67/100, with 6/100 of stress already active. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (67/100), institutional ownership (52/100), construction/permit lag (30/100). By contrast, construction/permit lag (30/100) and mortgage stress (19/100) register low.

The market reads peak — home values rose 2.8% year on year, and 7% higher over three years (phase confidence 26/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

At $79,562, median income runs near typical U.S. levels. Around 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Around 52% of renters are cost-burdened. The typical home is worth about $413,900 (4.9× income). About 35,829 people live here, median age 35. 68% of housing is owner-occupied. The poverty rate is 16.0%. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 38/100. The vacancy rate is 4.1%. The ZIP holds roughly 12,967 housing units.

Net-net, 98404 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.