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

Bladen County, NC, North Carolina: 18 ZIP codes scored, Bladen County, NC averaging 35/100 (moderate, Bladen, NC), from 30 to 37. Bladen County, NC is in its peak phase (Bladen, NC confidence 22/100): Bladen, NC home prices up 2.8% (Bladen, NC) over twelve months. Bladen County, NC lender headwind: 41/100.

Highest-scoring Bladen County, NC ZIPs: 28306 (37/100), 28312 (37/100), 28384 (37/100), 28320 (36/100), 28332 (36/100), 28337 (36/100). Also scored in Bladen County, NC: 28392, 28399, 28434, 28382, 28433, 28441, 28448, 28444, 28456, 28447.

Across Bladen County, NC's scored ZIPs: median home value $158,567, household income $58,490, 18.8% vacancy, 18.6% poverty, 74% owner-occupied, median age 44.5.

Bladen County, NC insurance distress 80/100 (#365 in the US); FEMA hazard 78/100 for Bladen, NC; 6 federal disaster declarations in Bladen County, NC since 2023; 13 Bladen, NC NFIP flood claims, $337K paid; Bladen, NC construction distress 87/100.

5 banks with 7 branches lend in Bladen County, NC; Bladen, NC weighted bank stress 59/100, highest 71/100 in Bladen, NC.

Bladen County, NC unemployment 4.8% (Bladen, NC -0.5 pts, six months); 64 new housing units permitted in Bladen County, NC over twelve months, Bladen, NC down 46% from 118; Bladen, NC home prices +10.1% a year (Bladen, NC) over three years.

15,286 housing units in Bladen County, NC; 3,508 Bladen, NC renter households; 35% of Bladen, NC renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 20% (Bladen, NC) half or more.

Bladen County, NC ranks #485 nationally on the opportunity index (Bladen, NC, among all ranked counties); Bladen, NC scores 33.5/100 and Bladen, NC sits #23 inside North Carolina. Bladen, NC is in the overheated opportunity phase; Bladen, NC's primary driver is vacancy, Bladen, NC second driver construction; Bladen, NC moved down 186 places. 16 short-sale listings across Bladen, NC; 60 days on market observed in Bladen, NC; 20.0% vacancy over 18 Bladen, NC ZIPs.

No CFPB county sample covers Bladen County, NC. The non-metro area reading for Bladen, NC: 1.3% ninety-plus days late; Bladen, NC's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 3.4% (Bladen, NC, December 2025 data); North Carolina overall 0.9%.

Bladen County, NC has 3 watched banks; 3 Bladen, NC banks sit in an elevated band. Bladen, NC footprints: First-Citizens Bank&Trust Co (2 branches, stress 71) in Bladen, NC; Truist Bank (2 branches, stress 62) in Bladen, NC; First Bank (1 branch, stress 47) in Bladen, NC.

HUD lists 1 assisted multifamily property in Bladen County, NC with 37 units; 36 Bladen, NC units are assisted, 1 Bladen, NC properties under project-based Section 8.

3,462 of the 15,286 housing units in Bladen, NC sit vacant. Bladen County, NC permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Bladen, NC's one-to-four unit structures added 64 units in Bladen County, NC.