Every month, I provide a breakdown of Pierce County home price and sales activity stats when the newest numbers are released from the Northwest Multiple Listing Service. And every month I get queries and requests from those who want info for areas not on the list.

Here’s how the breakdown works: There are 103 cities or neighborhoods in Pierce County grouped into 17 larger geographic areas – the 17 for which I’m given MLS statistics. Which means that Spanaway and Anderson Island each get one of the 17 entries in the list but the Key Peninsula and Fox Island are part of the Gig Harbor numbers. These are how the numbers are provided by the MLS. I am unable to get a more detailed report when the new monthly release is sent.

The boundaries for each MLS area have been decided and are occasionally revised by real estate brokers for marketing purposes, according to MLS spokeswoman Cheri Brennan. They tend to not follow city limits and are a blending of the boundaries established long ago when the Northwest MLS combined with the MLS operated by the Tacoma-Pierce County Association of Realtors until 1997.

So that everyone knows where their area falls within the Pierce County MLS areas, here’s a look at the 17 I profile every month and the additional parts of the county that are grouped with each, plus the approximate boundaries for the four Tacoma categories.

Anderson Island
Bonney Lake/Lake Tapps: Buckley, Wilkeson, Carbona, Orting, part of Sumner
Browns Point: Northeast Tacoma
DuPont: Steilacoom, Ketron Island, part of Lakewood, Tillicum
Eatonville: Greenwater, Clear Lake, Ashofrd, Elbe, Alder, Tanwax Lake, Kapo, part of Graham
Fife: Milton, Edgewood, Sumner
Gig Harbor: Purdy, Rosedal, Key Pensinula, Fox Island, Artondale
Lakewood
Parkland
Puyallup: Frederickson, part of Graham
Roy: McKenna, Harts Lake
Spanaway
Tacoma, Central: 6th Avenue to State Route 16 and Center Street and much of downtown
Tacoma, North: Everything north of 6th Avenue until about Pearl, then everything north of State Route 16
Tacoma, South: State Route 16 and I-5 to South 96th Street and along I-5 to around South 84th Street, Sourth Orchard St. to Park Avenue and part of Highway 7
Tacoma, Southeast: I-5 to South 84th Street along McKinley Avenue to East 72nd Street, Park Avenue
University Place/Fircrest: Part of Tacoma