ZIP 98422 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Pierce County, Washington · Distress market
Pierce County, Washington's ZIP 98422 registers 30/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. Its heaviest discrete signals: structural risk (66/100), institutional ownership (57/100), mortgage stress (19/100). mortgage stress (19/100) and construction/permit lag (15/100) stay muted. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (99/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (92/100), FEMA disaster exposure (68/100). The split runs 66/100 structural to 6/100 active on the ground.
Prices here sit in a peak phase: values held roughly flat over the trailing year, and 7% higher over three years, at 16/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.
Median household income is $115,989, above the U.S. median near $78,000. Rent burden reaches 45% of tenant households. The poverty rate is 6.2% — low. Owners hold 78% of homes, renters 22%. About 39% have a four-year degree. Vacancy runs 3.4%. On demographic stress specifically, 98422 scores 33/100. The typical home is worth about $663,800 (5.3× income). The ZIP holds roughly 8,313 housing units. About 22,126 people live here, median age 39.
On balance 98422 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. While 98422 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.
Whether 98422 runs hot or quiet, its 30/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 98422 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Pierce County, Washington or nationwide. Where the record is thin for 98422, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.
98422'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. In workflow terms, 98422 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.
Signal-by-signal read on 98422
Tax delinquency, institutional ownership, insurance pressure, NFIP/flood, construction lag, price dislocation and auction velocity — plus the 0 individual distressed properties are broken out by owner, address, APN, per-property score and exit read inside DLRadar.
ZIP 98422 Stress Report snapshot
The live 98422 panel — distress score, market phase, housing and bank pressure — as attached to every individual property.
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Every distressed parcel in 98422 comes with owner and address, APN, its own distress score, bank exposure and an exit-velocity read — plus a one-click path to owner and lender records, refreshed continuously nationwide.
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