How Tacoma is built — and why it changes the price
Around 228,000 people live in Tacoma's 50 square miles — about 4,590 per square mile. The mix runs from walk-up blocks to streets where a truck can back straight up to the door.
Roughly 62% of Tacoma homes stand detached, with 28% in buildings of five units or more. The majority of pickups start at ground level, which keeps the range on this page toward the lower end.
At 56% owner-occupied, Tacoma generates more cleanouts than move-outs — and cleanouts are the jobs where a photo saves the most back-and-forth, because volume is hard to describe in words. The median home here dates to 1967 — mid-century stock, usually with an attached garage, which is where the load tends to be.
Measured from the city centre, our closest other coverage is Seattle (26 miles), Bellevue (28 miles) and Portland (119 miles). Pros work across those lines all day, so the bids on a Tacoma job often come from trucks that started the morning somewhere else entirely.