Chowan County, NC: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Chowan County, NC, North Carolina: 4 ZIP codes scored, Chowan County, NC averaging 19/100 (low, Chowan, NC), from 16 to 21. Chowan County, NC is in its peak phase (Chowan, NC confidence 22/100): Chowan, NC home prices up 2.8% (Chowan, NC) over twelve months. Chowan County, NC lender headwind: 47/100.
Highest-scoring Chowan County, NC ZIPs: 27919 (21/100), 27932 (20/100), 27980 (20/100), 27946 (16/100).
Across Chowan County, NC's scored ZIPs: median home value $217,575, household income $58,323, 20.1% vacancy, 12.6% poverty, 77% owner-occupied, median age 48.9.
Chowan County, NC insurance distress 68/100 (#692 in the US); FEMA hazard 78/100 for Chowan, NC; 6 federal disaster declarations in Chowan County, NC since 2023; 1 Chowan, NC NFIP flood claims, $4K paid; Chowan, NC construction distress 24/100.
4 banks with 4 branches lend in Chowan County, NC; Chowan, NC weighted bank stress 59/100, highest 69/100 in Chowan, NC.
Chowan County, NC unemployment 3.4% (Chowan, NC -0.3 pts, six months); 65 new housing units permitted in Chowan County, NC over twelve months, Chowan, NC up 27% from 51; Chowan, NC home prices +10.3% a year (Chowan, NC) over three years.
7,190 housing units in Chowan County, NC; 1,816 Chowan, NC renter households; 36% of Chowan, NC renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 24% (Chowan, NC) half or more.
Chowan County, NC ranks #819 nationally on the opportunity index (Chowan, NC, among all ranked counties); Chowan, NC scores 31.9/100 and Chowan, NC sits #41 inside North Carolina. Chowan, NC is in the watchlist opportunity phase; Chowan, NC's primary driver is vacancy, Chowan, NC second driver bank institutional; Chowan, NC moved up 424 places. 7 days on market observed in Chowan, NC; 17.1% vacancy over 4 Chowan, NC ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Chowan County, NC. The non-metro area reading for Chowan, NC: 1.3% ninety-plus days late; Chowan, NC's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 3.4% (Chowan, NC, December 2025 data); North Carolina overall 0.9%.
Chowan County, NC has 2 watched banks; 2 Chowan, NC banks sit in an elevated band. Chowan, NC footprints: Southern Bank&Trust Co (1 branch, stress 69) in Chowan, NC; Truist Bank (1 branch, stress 62) in Chowan, NC.
1,056 of the 7,190 housing units in Chowan, NC sit vacant. Chowan County, NC permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Chowan, NC's one-to-four unit structures added 65 units in Chowan County, NC.