Dare County, NC: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Dare County, NC, North Carolina: 14 ZIP codes scored, Dare County, NC averaging 34/100 (moderate, Dare, NC). Dare County, NC is in its peak phase (Dare, NC confidence 18/100): Dare, NC home prices up 1.9% (Dare, NC) over twelve months. Dare County, NC lender headwind: 35/100.
Highest-scoring Dare County, NC ZIPs: 27915 (34/100), 27920 (34/100), 27936 (34/100), 27943 (34/100), 27948 (34/100), 27949 (34/100). Also scored in Dare County, NC: 27953, 27954, 27959, 27968, 27972, 27978, 27981, 27982.
Across Dare County, NC's scored ZIPs: median home value $417,720, household income $84,670, 48.7% vacancy, 7.3% poverty, 76% owner-occupied, median age 49.0.
Dare County, NC insurance distress 91/100 (#90 in the US); FEMA hazard 90/100 for Dare, NC; 8 federal disaster declarations in Dare County, NC since 2023; 400 Dare, NC NFIP flood claims, $11.4M paid; Dare, NC construction distress 50/100.
9 banks with 20 branches lend in Dare County, NC; Dare, NC weighted bank stress 54/100, highest 69/100 in Dare, NC.
Dare County, NC unemployment 2.9% (Dare, NC -4.0 pts, six months); 359 new housing units permitted in Dare County, NC over twelve months, Dare, NC up 0% from 359; Dare, NC home prices +12.7% a year (Dare, NC) over three years.
35,278 housing units in Dare County, NC; 3,662 Dare, NC renter households; 48% of Dare, NC renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 24% (Dare, NC) half or more.
Dare County, NC ranks #485 nationally on the opportunity index (Dare, NC, among all ranked counties); Dare, NC scores 33.5/100 and Dare, NC sits #23 inside North Carolina. Dare, NC is in the overheated opportunity phase; Dare, NC's primary driver is vacancy, Dare, NC second driver bank institutional; Dare, NC moved down 300 places. 3 short-sale listings across Dare, NC; 35 days on market observed in Dare, NC; 44.4% vacancy over 14 Dare, NC ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Dare County, NC. The non-metro area reading for Dare, NC: 1.3% ninety-plus days late; Dare, NC's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 3.4% (Dare, NC, December 2025 data); North Carolina overall 0.9%.
Dare County, NC has 3 watched banks; 3 Dare, NC banks sit in an elevated band. Dare, NC footprints: Southern Bank&Trust Co (3 branches, stress 69) in Dare, NC; Truist Bank (1 branch, stress 62) in Dare, NC; First Bank (1 branch, stress 47) in Dare, NC.
18,442 of the 35,278 housing units in Dare, NC sit vacant. Dare County, NC permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Dare, NC's one-to-four unit structures added 359 units in Dare County, NC.