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

Durham County, North Carolina sits inside DLRadar's nationwide distress index, built entirely from public records. ZIP-level distress ranges from 34/100 at the top down to 24/100. Coverage runs to 17 ZIPs across Durham County, a moderate 31/100 average. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 47/100 (moderate).

The peak-phase county posted home values that rose 1.3% over twelve months (phase confidence 12/100). On a market plateau, the average masks the outliers so screen ZIP by ZIP.

At +1.3% YoY and 12/100 confidence, the wins are surgical so the headline market won't hand it over. A moderate 47/100 lender headwind means a blend the ZIP scores sort out.

Highest scores land in 27560 (34/100), 27613 (34/100), 27617 (34/100), 27503 (32/100), 27701 (32/100), 27703 (32/100); each opens to a full parcel breakdown. Also scored across the county: 27704, 27707, 27708, 27709, 27712, 27705, 27713, 27517, 27278, 27572.

On the housing-and-income side, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Durham County report incomes around $91,783, a 9.7% poverty rate, typical home values near $423,440, a 6.9% vacancy rate, residents with a median age around 38.1, 65% owner-occupancy. Income, equity and tenure like these shape the volume of pressured sellers and the exit liquidity behind them.

At 31/100 composite over 17 ZIPs, the edge is selective acquisition and not a county-wide play. Subscribers get each Durham County parcel's owner, mailing address, APN, a distress reading, the lender on title and exit timing.

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

In Durham County, North Carolina, the scores are a targeting tool first: they tell you which ZIPs hold the distress and which owners are most likely under real financial pressure, so limited acquisition effort lands where it converts. The Durham 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.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Durham County are 27560 (34/100), 27613 (34/100), 27617 (34/100), 27503 (32/100), 27701 (32/100), 27703 (32/100). DLRadar also scores 27704, 27707, 27708, 27709, 27712, 27705, 27713, 27517 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.

Under Durham 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.