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

DLRadar tracks property distress across Carteret County, North Carolina using verifiable public-record signals alone. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 47/100 (moderate). The county spans 19 scored ZIP codes, averaging 36/100 composite distress. Individual Carteret County ZIPs score between 28 and 37 on the 0–100 composite.

In its peak phase, Carteret County home prices rose 1.9% across the last year, at 18/100 phase confidence. On a market plateau, broad sweeps stop paying so screen ZIP by ZIP.

With Carteret County flat at +1.9% YoY (18/100 confidence), opportunity is parcel-specific well beyond the county average. A moderate 47/100 lender headwind points to a blend the ZIP scores sort out.

The most-distressed ZIP codes in Carteret County are 28511 (37/100), 28512 (37/100), 28516 (37/100), 28520 (37/100), 28524 (37/100), 28528 (37/100), each with its own full DLRadar report. Further scored ZIPs: 28531, 28553, 28557, 28570, 28575, 28577, 28579, 28581, 28589, 28594.

Demographically, Carteret County's tracked footprint report household income averaging about $72,308, roughly at the national median, a 8.6% poverty rate, median home values around $341,383 (near the national figure), 81% of homes owner-occupied, a 37.3% vacancy rate, a median age of 51.6. Numbers like these signal the volume of pressured sellers and the exit liquidity behind them.

With a moderate 36/100 reading over 19 ZIPs, the edge is selective acquisition for a disciplined buyer. Inside DLRadar, each Carteret County property carries owner, mailing address, APN, its own score, the lender behind it and an exit read.

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

The way to work Carteret County, North Carolina is top-down — start with the highest-scoring ZIPs (up to 37/100 here), then drill to the parcels driving those numbers, rather than blanketing Carteret County with undifferentiated outreach. All of it is deterministic and auditable: Carteret County's numbers come from county recorders, the courts, FHFA and FDIC, with nothing interpolated or guessed when a source is sparse.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Carteret County are 28511 (37/100), 28512 (37/100), 28516 (37/100), 28520 (37/100), 28524 (37/100), 28528 (37/100). DLRadar also scores 28531, 28553, 28557, 28570, 28575, 28577, 28579, 28581 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.

The Carteret County score is not a single measure but a composite: foreclosure activity, mortgage and tax-lien stress, and local lender headwind each feed it, which is why understanding the components matters as much as the headline number.