Ashe County, NC: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Every ZIP in Ashe County, North Carolina carries a DLRadar distress score assembled from foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender records. Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 26 to 34 out of 100. The county spans 13 scored ZIP codes, averaging 29/100 composite distress. Bank/credit headwind for the county is 50 on a 0–100 scale, a moderate reading.

In its peak phase, Ashe County home prices rose 2.8% across the last year, a 22/100-confidence read. With values leveling off, blanket buying underperforms with opportunity concentrated by ZIP.

At +2.8% YoY and 22/100 confidence, opportunity is parcel-specific and a county-wide sweep stays on the shelf. A moderate 50/100 lender headwind points to both signal sets in play here.

Leading Ashe County on distress: 28698 (34/100), 28684 (32/100), 28615 (29/100), 28617 (29/100), 28626 (29/100), 28629 (29/100). Other tracked Ashe County ZIPs include 28640, 28643, 28672, 28693, 28694, 28631, 28644.

Underneath the scores, Ashe County's tracked footprint run a median household income near $52,349 (below the US norm), vacancy near 26%, poverty running near 21.2%, an owner-occupied share of 75%, residents with a median age around 47.4, home values averaging roughly $228,700, below the US. Taken together, they drive the kind of distress to expect and the buyer pool on exit.

With a low 29/100 reading over 13 ZIPs, the opportunity hides below the average where the ZIP scores point. Subscribers get each Ashe County parcel's owner, mailing address, APN, per-parcel scoring with lender exposure and resale velocity.

Whether Ashe County, North Carolina carries heavy distress or only a handful of flagged parcels, every score here is built the same deterministic way — from recorded foreclosures, tax delinquency, liens and lender stress — so Ashe County can be compared directly against any county in the country.

For anyone buying in Ashe County, the scores answer one question first — which ZIPs deserve the marketing budget, with the top reading 34/100. These Ashe County numbers come straight from public filings and refresh as new ones post; a missing source produces a blank field, never an estimate.

The ZIP breakdown for Ashe County leads with 28698 (34/100), 28684 (32/100), 28615 (29/100), 28617 (29/100), 28626 (29/100), 28629 (29/100). DLRadar also scores 28640, 28643, 28672, 28693, 28694, 28631, 28644 across the county. Because each ZIP is graded on its own foreclosure, tax and lender record, the county's distress is best read code by code rather than as a single number.

The Ashe County score is not a single measure but a composite: foreclosure activity, mortgage and tax-lien stress, and local lender headwind each feed it, which is why understanding the components matters as much as the headline number.