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

Catawba County, NC, North Carolina: 14 ZIP codes scored, Catawba County, NC averaging 30/100 (moderate, Catawba, NC), from 28 to 31. Catawba County, NC is in its peak phase (Catawba, NC confidence 19/100): Catawba, NC home prices up 2.3% (Catawba, NC) over twelve months. Catawba County, NC lender headwind: 51/100.

Highest-scoring Catawba County, NC ZIPs: 28090 (31/100), 28602 (31/100), 28609 (31/100), 28610 (31/100), 28613 (31/100), 28650 (31/100). Also scored in Catawba County, NC: 28658, 28673, 28682, 28037, 28092, 28168, 28601, 28612.

Across Catawba County, NC's scored ZIPs: median home value $267,464, household income $69,058, 11.9% vacancy, 11.2% poverty, 78% owner-occupied, median age 44.1.

Catawba County, NC insurance distress 82/100 (#285 in the US); FEMA hazard 78/100 for Catawba, NC; 6 federal disaster declarations in Catawba County, NC since 2023; 21 Catawba, NC NFIP flood claims, $897K paid; Catawba, NC construction distress 32/100.

11 banks with 33 branches lend in Catawba County, NC; Catawba, NC weighted bank stress 64/100, highest 71/100 in Catawba, NC.

Catawba County, NC unemployment 3.5% (Catawba, NC -0.2 pts, six months); 2,314 new housing units permitted in Catawba County, NC over twelve months, Catawba, NC up 19% from 1,939; Catawba, NC home prices +12.3% a year (Catawba, NC) over three years.

73,133 housing units in Catawba County, NC; 17,787 Catawba, NC renter households; 35% of Catawba, NC renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 14% (Catawba, NC) half or more.

Catawba County, NC ranks #1,513 nationally on the opportunity index (Catawba, NC, among all ranked counties); Catawba, NC scores 29.4/100 and Catawba, NC sits #65 inside North Carolina. Catawba, NC is in the early_signal opportunity phase; Catawba, NC's primary driver is bank institutional, Catawba, NC second driver vacancy; Catawba, NC moved up 369 places. 21 short-sale listings across Catawba, NC; 103 days on market observed in Catawba, NC; 9.4% vacancy over 14 Catawba, NC ZIPs.

1.7% of Catawba County, NC mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Catawba, NC's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 2.6% (CFPB county sample). Catawba, NC's ninety-day rate is up 0.8 points on twelve months earlier; the Catawba, NC peak since 2008 was 4.5% in January 2010; North Carolina overall reads 0.9%.

Catawba County, NC has 4 watched banks; 4 Catawba, NC banks sit in an elevated band. Catawba, NC footprints: Peoples Bank (10 branches, stress 67) in Catawba, NC; Truist Bank (6 branches, stress 62) in Catawba, NC; First-Citizens Bank&Trust Co (3 branches, stress 71) in Catawba, NC.

HUD lists 10 assisted multifamily properties in Catawba County, NC with 944 units; 586 Catawba, NC units are assisted, 5 Catawba, NC properties under project-based Section 8.

6,906 of the 73,133 housing units in Catawba, NC sit vacant. Catawba County, NC permitted 342 multifamily units in twelve months; Catawba, NC's one-to-four unit structures added 1,972 units in Catawba County, NC.