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

Every ZIP in Craven County, North Carolina carries a DLRadar distress score assembled from foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender records. Lender pressure in Craven County registers 46/100 — a moderate bank-stress headwind. Individual Craven County ZIPs score between 29 and 34 on the 0–100 composite. There are 11 scored ZIPs in the county (mean composite 33/100).

The county market is in a peak phase: home prices rose 1.9% over the past year (phase confidence 18/100). On a market plateau, the average masks the outliers with opportunity concentrated by ZIP.

Craven County's topped-out +1.9% YoY (18/100 confidence) means opportunity is parcel-specific — target the few ZIPs carrying distress. A mid-cycle 46/100 lender reading means both signal sets in play here.

By composite, 28519 (34/100), 28523 (34/100), 28527 (34/100), 28532 (34/100), 28533 (34/100), 28562 (34/100) top the county — tap any ZIP to go deeper. Other tracked Craven County ZIPs include 28586, 28526, 28560, 28573, 28530.

Profile-wise, Craven County's scored ZIPs run vacancy near 13.1%, residents with a median age around 41.1, a median household income near $63,752 (below the US norm), typical home values near $169,870, poverty running near 19.2%, an owner-occupied share of 70%. These fundamentals shape the supply of motivated sellers and the speed of resale.

All in at 33/100 over 11 ZIPs, the opportunity hides below the average where the ZIP scores point. A DLRadar subscription opens every Craven County parcel: owner, APN and address, a distress score and bank-exposure read.

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

Used properly, Craven County, North Carolina's scores are a triage layer: they rank where motivated sellers cluster so acquisition spend goes to the ZIPs that convert rather than across Craven County as a whole. The Craven 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.

The ZIP breakdown for Craven County leads with 28519 (34/100), 28523 (34/100), 28527 (34/100), 28532 (34/100), 28533 (34/100), 28562 (34/100). DLRadar also scores 28586, 28526, 28560, 28573, 28530 across the county. Because each ZIP is graded on its own foreclosure, tax and lender record, the county's distress is best read code by code rather than as a single number.

Under Craven 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.