ZIP 98498 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Pierce County, Washington · Distress market
ZIP 98498's composite property-distress score is 30/100 - DLRadar classes that as moderate for Pierce County, Washington. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (99/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (91/100), FEMA disaster exposure (68/100). Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (65/100), institutional ownership (57/100), mortgage stress (19/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (19/100) and construction/permit lag (16/100). Structural risk reads 65/100 against active distress of 6/100.
The market reads peak — home values held roughly flat year on year, and 8% higher over three years (phase confidence 16/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.
Population is roughly 28,940 with a median age of 41. The vacancy rate is 7.7%. The poverty rate is 9.0%. At $88,382, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. 61% of housing is owner-occupied. On demographic stress specifically, 98498 scores 35/100. A median home runs $506,300 here, or 5.2 times local income. Rent burden reaches 38% of tenant households. There are about 12,918 housing units across 98498. About 29% have a four-year degree.
On balance 98498 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. No parcel file is published for 98498 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.
No ZIP is too small to score: 98498 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 30/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. 98498 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.
98498'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. Treat 98498 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.
Signal-by-signal read on 98498
Delinquency on tax, investor concentration, insurance pressure, NFIP flood, lagging construction, price dislocation and sale velocity — and the 0 individual distressed properties (owner, address, APN, per-property score and exit read) are in the full DLRadar report.
The 98498 distress snapshot
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