ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 98332
Pierce County, Washington: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 633
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 19,708
- Population (ZIP)
- 130
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 98332 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 98332 sits within Pierce County, WA, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).
Reported crime here runs well below the national average: 130 violent incidents and 633 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
ZIP 98332 carries a Census-reported population of 19,708, ranking #23 of 57 ZIPs in Pierce County, spread across 20.67 square miles (about 953 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Pierce County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Pierce County crime page linked below.
ZIP 98332 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Pierce County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 98332 Census context
These are ZIP/ZCTA demographic estimates, separate from the county-level FBI proxy above. They describe the local settlement, not a crime rate.
- Median household income
- $122,869
- Median age
- 47.6 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 83%
- Occupied homes
- 7,452
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).
How useful is the county proxy for ZIP 98332?
Within the participating-agency records for Pierce County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 63% below and property crime is 63% below. The two submitted measures point in the same direction, but they do not establish complete county coverage or turn the result into a ZIP-level rating for 98332. Both comparisons use the same 2024 county reporting population and FBI-submitted counts, so the two directions are internally comparable for this release, not evidence about a different year.
ZIP 98332 sits near the middle of Pierce County's ZIP population ordering (#23 of 57). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.
Pierce County UCR book ZIP 98332 inherits
ZIP 98332 itself is about 953 people per Census sq mi across 20.7 sq mi (19,708 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 98332 accounts for roughly 2.1% of the county reporting population (19,708 of 921,130).
Pierce County leans on larceny-theft at 50% of reported offenses (mix index 3,258). ZIP 98332 has no separate FBI offense book.
Pierce County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -19% vs 2023; property counts -27% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Pierce County offense mix (2024)
Mix index is HHI × 10,000 on county offense-type shares. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero; still county-agency data, not a ZIP-native FBI table.
Nationwide peers for ZIP 98332
Similar county violent rate (~130/100K)
- ZIP 49002, MI · 129.6/100K · Kalamazoo County
- ZIP 89408, NV · 129.3/100K · Churchill County
- ZIP 95334, CA · 129.8/100K · Merced County
- ZIP 28657, NC · 129.2/100K · Avery County
Similar Census population (~19,708)
- ZIP 47172, IN · 19,705 pop · Δ3
- ZIP 71105, LA · 19,705 pop · Δ3
- ZIP 37774, TN · 19,713 pop · Δ5
- ZIP 29582, SC · 19,701 pop · Δ7
County detail: Pierce County · State atlas: Washington
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau (ZIP population, land area, 2020 ZCTA-to-county relationship file, ACS 5-year estimates) and FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, Crime in the United States (CIUS) Table 10 (county-level crime, attributed via ZIP-to-county crosswalk).
Verify with Census.gov Geography and FBI.gov UCR.
Read our methodology , how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page combines Census ZIP-level figures with a ZIP-to-county crosswalk to attribute FBI UCR crime data honestly, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.