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A market with no active rental pool to price against. The sale-side figures below are the whole picture.
What would change this read: the median listing price is −8.6% YoY. inventory, +2.4% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 8.6% YoY while the median home got down 9.9% bigger, so value per square foot is down 1.5%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 98422 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 21.9% of this ZIP's 8,038 occupied households, on a median household income of $119K.
| Measure | ZIP 98422 | Pierce County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $119K | $100K | +$19K |
| Below Poverty Level | 5.7% | 8.8% | -3.1% |
| Median Age | 40.00 | 37.00 | +3.00 |
| Total Population | 21,644 | 930,319 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.69 | 2.59 | +0.10 |
| Owner-Occupied | 78.1% | 64.7% | +13.4% |
| Worked From Home | 18.2% | 13.9% | +4.3% |
| Mean Commute | 33.50 | 31.30 | +2.20 |
Higher or lower is not itself good or bad — it describes the neighborhood, not the investment.
ZIP-level figures come from ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP codes. A missing value is suppressed or unavailable at this sample size, not zero. Estimates for 2019–2020 use the 2010 ZCTA boundaries and 2021–2024 the 2020 ones, so a step between those two years may be a boundary change rather than real movement.
County population is up 0.7% to 930,319: residents under 18 are down 0.2% and those 65 and over are up 3.2%.
County median household income is $100K, 8.8% of residents are below the poverty level, 13.9% work from home.