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

Burke County, North Carolina is mapped parcel-to-ZIP by DLRadar's public-record distress engine. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 49/100 (moderate). Individual Burke County ZIPs score between 23 and 30 on the 0–100 composite. There are 17 scored ZIPs in the county (mean composite 28/100).

Currently peak, Burke County saw prices rise 2.3% year over year, a 19/100-confidence read. At this stage of the cycle, the opportunity narrows so screen ZIP by ZIP.

Burke County's topped-out +2.3% YoY (19/100 confidence) means the wins are surgical and a county-wide sweep stays on the shelf. A moderate 49/100 lender headwind implies mixed owner- and bank-driven distress.

Leading Burke County on distress: 28090 (30/100), 28168 (30/100), 28602 (30/100), 28645 (30/100), 28601 (29/100), 28667 (29/100). Also scored across the county: 28761, 28612, 28619, 28628, 28637, 28641, 28655, 28666, 28671, 28690.

By the numbers, the Burke County ZIPs on file show poverty running near 21%, a 12.6% vacancy rate, a median household income near $58,039 (below the US norm), typical home values near $203,079, an owner-occupied share of 68%, residents with a median age around 46.2. Income, equity and tenure like these set up the supply of motivated sellers and the speed of resale.

With a low 28/100 reading over 17 ZIPs, distress here is parcel-specific for a disciplined buyer. A DLRadar subscription opens every Burke County parcel: owner, mailing address, APN, a distress reading, the lender on title and exit timing.

Whether Burke 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 Burke County can be compared directly against any county in the country.

Approach Burke County by rank rather than by average — the 28/100 county figure conceals the spread, since the returns live in the top-scoring ZIPs. What supports the Burke County read is documentary: filings from the recorder and courts, federal price and bank data, and blanks wherever coverage is thin.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Burke County are 28090 (30/100), 28168 (30/100), 28602 (30/100), 28645 (30/100), 28601 (29/100), 28667 (29/100). DLRadar also scores 28761, 28612, 28619, 28628, 28637, 28641, 28655, 28666 and more across the county. Each code carries its own composite built from that ZIP's foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien and lender signals, so two neighboring ZIPs can diverge sharply even inside one county.

Under Burke County's headline composite sit distinct layers — recorded foreclosures, tax and lien delinquency, mortgage stress and bank headwind — each scored separately before they roll up, so the same total can describe very different markets.