Alexander County, NC: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Alexander County, NC, North Carolina: 8 ZIP codes scored, Alexander County, NC averaging 27/100 (low, Alexander, NC), from 20 to 33. Alexander County, NC is in its peak phase (Alexander, NC confidence 19/100): Alexander, NC home prices up 2.3% (Alexander, NC) over twelve months. Alexander County, NC lender headwind: 83/100.
Highest-scoring Alexander County, NC ZIPs: 28654 (33/100), 28625 (29/100), 28630 (29/100), 28601 (28/100), 28689 (28/100), 28678 (25/100). Also scored in Alexander County, NC: 28636, 28681.
Across Alexander County, NC's scored ZIPs: median home value $220,600, household income $65,442, 13.0% vacancy, 12.8% poverty, 78% owner-occupied, median age 43.8.
Alexander County, NC insurance distress 40/100 (#1,310 in the US); FEMA hazard 78/100 for Alexander, NC; 6 federal disaster declarations in Alexander County, NC since 2023; Alexander, NC construction distress 56/100.
4 banks with 6 branches lend in Alexander County, NC; Alexander, NC weighted bank stress 71/100, highest 84/100 in Alexander, NC.
Alexander County, NC unemployment 3.4% (Alexander, NC -0.2 pts, six months); 101 new housing units permitted in Alexander County, NC over twelve months, Alexander, NC down 5% from 106; Alexander, NC home prices +11.6% a year (Alexander, NC) over three years.
16,218 housing units in Alexander County, NC; 2,547 Alexander, NC renter households; 29% of Alexander, NC renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 17% (Alexander, NC) half or more.
Alexander County, NC ranks #1,088 nationally on the opportunity index (Alexander, NC, among all ranked counties); Alexander, NC scores 30.9/100 and Alexander, NC sits #54 inside North Carolina. Alexander, NC is in the watchlist opportunity phase; Alexander, NC's primary driver is vacancy, Alexander, NC second driver bank institutional; Alexander, NC moved up 75 places. 11 short-sale listings across Alexander, NC; 71 days on market observed in Alexander, NC; 13.0% vacancy over 8 Alexander, NC ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Alexander County, NC. The metro area reading for Alexander, NC (Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC): 1.7% ninety-plus days late; Alexander, NC's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 3.4% (Alexander, NC, December 2025 data); North Carolina overall 0.9%.
Alexander County, NC has 3 watched banks; 3 Alexander, NC banks sit in an elevated band. Alexander, NC footprints: Taylorsville Sb Ssb (3 branches, stress 84) in Alexander, NC; First-Citizens Bank&Trust Co (1 branch, stress 71) in Alexander, NC; Peoples Bank (1 branch, stress 67) in Alexander, NC.
2,092 of the 16,218 housing units in Alexander, NC sit vacant. Alexander County, NC permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Alexander, NC's one-to-four unit structures added 101 units in Alexander County, NC.