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

DLRadar tracks property distress across Caldwell County, North Carolina using verifiable public-record signals alone. 10 ZIP codes are tracked county-wide, averaging 31/100 distress. ZIP-level distress ranges from 35/100 at the top down to 28/100. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 55/100 (moderate).

The county market is in a peak phase: home prices rose 2.3% over the past year (phase confidence 19/100). With pricing topped out, the average masks the outliers with opportunity concentrated by ZIP.

Near the cycle top at +2.3% YoY (19/100 confidence), opportunity is parcel-specific well beyond the county average. A mid-cycle 55/100 lender reading points to a blend the ZIP scores sort out.

The most-distressed ZIP codes in Caldwell County are 28624 (35/100), 28606 (34/100), 28605 (33/100), 28638 (30/100), 28645 (30/100), 28601 (29/100), each with its own full DLRadar report. Further scored ZIPs: 28630, 28667, 28611, 28655.

Demographically, Caldwell County's tracked footprint show median home values around $223,500 (below the national figure), 73% of homes owner-occupied, a median age of 47.3, a median household income near $58,538 (below the US norm), vacancy near 24.2%, poverty running near 14%. Taken together, they set up who is forced to sell and how readily the market absorbs it.

Caldwell County, North Carolina's 31/100 average over 10 ZIPs says distress here is parcel-specific where the ZIP scores point. Subscribers get each Caldwell County parcel's owner and contact detail, APN, a score, the bank behind the note and how fast it should sell.

The distress read for Caldwell County, North Carolina is refreshed as new public records post and uses the same methodology coast to coast, so Caldwell County stays directly comparable to any other market you track.

In Caldwell County, North Carolina, the scores are a targeting tool first: they tell you which ZIPs hold the distress and which owners are most likely under real financial pressure, so limited acquisition effort lands where it converts. The Caldwell County read is rebuilt from public records as they post — no modeling fills the gaps — so what you see is what the documents support, refreshed on each ingest.

Drilling in, Caldwell County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 28624 (35/100), 28606 (34/100), 28605 (33/100), 28638 (30/100), 28645 (30/100), 28601 (29/100). DLRadar also scores 28630, 28667, 28611, 28655 across the county. Every one of these is scored independently — a ZIP's composite reflects its own recorded distress, which is why the county average alone hides where the real pressure sits.

DLRadar's composite for Caldwell 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.