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

Every ZIP in Franklin County, North Carolina carries a DLRadar distress score assembled from foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender records. Individual Franklin County ZIPs score between 21 and 33 on the 0–100 composite. DLRadar scores 13 ZIPs here, with a mean composite of 26/100. Lender pressure in Franklin County registers 56/100 — a moderate bank-stress headwind.

The peak-phase county posted home values that rose 0.7% over twelve months, at 10/100 phase confidence. With values leveling off, broad sweeps stop paying so screen ZIP by ZIP.

With Franklin County flat at +0.7% YoY (10/100 confidence), opportunity is parcel-specific so the headline market won't hand it over. Mid-range bank stress at 56/100 points to both signal sets in play here.

Leading Franklin County on distress: 27587 (33/100), 27557 (32/100), 27597 (31/100), 27882 (31/100), 27816 (29/100), 27596 (26/100). Other tracked Franklin County ZIPs include 27508, 27549, 27525, 27844, 27537, 27544, 27589.

Demographically, the Franklin County ZIPs on file report a 12.6% vacancy rate, a median age of 43.3, incomes around $87,417, median home values around $232,523 (below the national figure), a 13% poverty rate, 75% of homes owner-occupied. Numbers like these set up the kind of distress to expect and the buyer pool on exit.

Franklin County, North Carolina's 26/100 average over 13 ZIPs says distress here is parcel-specific where the ZIP scores point. A DLRadar subscription opens every Franklin County parcel: owner, address and APN, a score, the bank behind the note and how fast it should sell.

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

Franklin County, North Carolina is best worked from the top of the score down; blanket outreach across Franklin County dilutes effort that the ZIP-level numbers would have focused. Nothing in the Franklin County read is modelled: recorder and court filings drive foreclosure and lien signals, FHFA sets the price cycle, FDIC the lender stress, and a thin source stays blank.

The ZIP breakdown for Franklin County leads with 27587 (33/100), 27557 (32/100), 27597 (31/100), 27882 (31/100), 27816 (29/100), 27596 (26/100). DLRadar also scores 27508, 27549, 27525, 27844, 27537, 27544, 27589 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.

DLRadar's composite for Franklin County blends several independent signals — foreclosure and pre-foreclosure filings, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, and the bank-stress headwind of the lenders operating locally — into one 0–100 score per ZIP, so a market can rank high on one axis and low on another.