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

Brunswick County, NC, North Carolina: 14 ZIP codes scored, Brunswick County, NC averaging 34/100 (moderate, Brunswick, NC), from 29 to 35. Brunswick County, NC is in its peak phase (Brunswick, NC confidence 23/100): Brunswick, NC home prices up 3.5% (Brunswick, NC) over twelve months. Brunswick County, NC lender headwind: 38/100.

Highest-scoring Brunswick County, NC ZIPs: 28420 (35/100), 28422 (35/100), 28451 (35/100), 28452 (35/100), 28461 (35/100), 28462 (35/100). Also scored in Brunswick County, NC: 28465, 28467, 28468, 28469, 28470, 28479, 28456, 28436.

Across Brunswick County, NC's scored ZIPs: median home value $318,854, household income $74,503, 27.7% vacancy, 12.1% poverty, 80% owner-occupied, median age 51.8.

Brunswick County, NC insurance distress 94/100 (#46 in the US); FEMA hazard 93/100 for Brunswick, NC; 10 federal disaster declarations in Brunswick County, NC since 2023; 306 Brunswick, NC NFIP flood claims, $13.6M paid; Brunswick, NC construction distress 46/100.

12 banks with 32 branches lend in Brunswick County, NC; Brunswick, NC weighted bank stress 58/100, highest 73/100 in Brunswick, NC.

Brunswick County, NC unemployment 3.9% (Brunswick, NC -0.7 pts, six months); 5,171 new housing units permitted in Brunswick County, NC over twelve months, Brunswick, NC up 4% from 4,957; Brunswick, NC home prices +13.1% a year (Brunswick, NC) over three years.

99,077 housing units in Brunswick County, NC; 10,413 Brunswick, NC renter households; 43% of Brunswick, NC renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 23% (Brunswick, NC) half or more.

Brunswick County, NC ranks #568 nationally on the opportunity index (Brunswick, NC, among all ranked counties); Brunswick, NC scores 33.1/100 and Brunswick, NC sits #27 inside North Carolina. Brunswick, NC is in the overheated opportunity phase; Brunswick, NC's primary driver is vacancy, Brunswick, NC second driver bank institutional; Brunswick, NC moved up 5 places. 17 short-sale listings across Brunswick, NC; 64 days on market observed in Brunswick, NC; 24.9% vacancy over 14 Brunswick, NC ZIPs.

0.6% of Brunswick County, NC mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Brunswick, NC's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 2.1% (CFPB county sample). Brunswick, NC's ninety-day rate is up 0.2 points on twelve months earlier; the Brunswick, NC peak since 2008 was 3.8% in May 2012; North Carolina overall reads 0.9%.

Brunswick County, NC has 4 watched banks; 4 Brunswick, NC banks sit in an elevated band. Brunswick, NC footprints: Truist Bank (8 branches, stress 62) in Brunswick, NC; First-Citizens Bank&Trust Co (4 branches, stress 71) in Brunswick, NC; First Bank (4 branches, stress 47) in Brunswick, NC.

29,953 of the 99,077 housing units in Brunswick, NC sit vacant. Brunswick County, NC permitted 264 multifamily units in twelve months; Brunswick, NC's one-to-four unit structures added 4,907 units in Brunswick County, NC.