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

For Brunswick County, North Carolina, DLRadar turns county and parcel public records into a single distress score per ZIP. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 38/100 (moderate). ZIP-level distress ranges from 36/100 at the top down to 29/100. DLRadar scores 14 ZIPs here, with a mean composite of 35/100.

In its peak phase, Brunswick County home prices rose 3.5% across the last year (phase confidence 23/100). With values leveling off, the average masks the outliers leaving the wins in individual deals.

Near the cycle top at +3.5% YoY (23/100 confidence), opportunity is parcel-specific well beyond the county average. A moderate 38/100 lender headwind means both signal sets in play here.

The most-distressed ZIP codes in Brunswick County are 28420 (36/100), 28422 (36/100), 28451 (36/100), 28452 (36/100), 28461 (36/100), 28462 (36/100), each with its own full DLRadar report. The breakdown continues through 28465, 28467, 28468, 28469, 28470, 28479, 28456, 28436 and more.

Underneath the scores, the Brunswick County ZIPs on file run 12.1% of households below the poverty line, a median age of 51.8, 27.7% of units sitting vacant, 80% of homes owner-occupied, household income averaging about $74,503, roughly at the national median, median home values around $318,854 (near the national figure). These fundamentals signal the volume of pressured sellers and the exit liquidity behind them.

At 35/100 composite over 14 ZIPs, distress here is parcel-specific rather than a blanket buy. Inside DLRadar, each Brunswick County property carries owner, mailing address, APN, a distress score plus a funding-to-closing path.

Because Brunswick County, North Carolina is scored on the identical public-record model used nationwide, even a quiet county is measured on one scale — letting you weigh Brunswick County against neighboring markets or the rest of North Carolina on equal footing.

For anyone buying in Brunswick County, the scores answer one question first — which ZIPs deserve the marketing budget, with the top reading 36/100. All Brunswick County inputs are public record — recorder, court, FHFA and FDIC — and the score is rebuilt on ingest rather than modelled forward.

The ZIP breakdown for Brunswick County leads with 28420 (36/100), 28422 (36/100), 28451 (36/100), 28452 (36/100), 28461 (36/100), 28462 (36/100). DLRadar also scores 28465, 28467, 28468, 28469, 28470, 28479, 28456, 28436 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.

DLRadar's composite for Brunswick County blends several independent signals — foreclosure and pre-foreclosure filings, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, and the bank-stress headwind of the lenders operating locally — into one 0–100 score per ZIP, so a market can rank high on one axis and low on another.