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

Gaston County, North Carolina sits inside DLRadar's nationwide distress index, built entirely from public records. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 35/100 (contained). DLRadar scores 18 ZIPs here, with a mean composite of 32/100. Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 30 to 32 out of 100.

Currently peak, Gaston County saw prices rise 1.0% year over year, at 16/100 phase confidence. With pricing topped out, the opportunity narrows so screen ZIP by ZIP.

Gaston County's topped-out +1.0% YoY (16/100 confidence) means selectivity rules and a county-wide sweep stays on the shelf. Lender stress at 35/100 (contained) points the search to tax, code and ownership-change cases over REO.

The sharpest Gaston County readings come from 28012 (32/100), 28016 (32/100), 28032 (32/100), 28034 (32/100), 28052 (32/100), 28054 (32/100) — open any for the parcel detail. Coverage extends to 28056, 28077, 28098, 28101, 28120, 28006, 28021, 28033, 28086, 28164 among others.

By the numbers, the Gaston County ZIPs on file run poverty running near 12.8%, 73% owner-occupancy, vacancy near 8.1%, typical home values near $265,867, incomes around $66,072, residents with a median age around 41.2. Numbers like these drive the kind of distress to expect and the buyer pool on exit.

All in at 32/100 over 18 ZIPs, Gaston County rewards parcel-by-parcel work for a disciplined buyer. Subscribers get each Gaston County parcel's owner, APN and address, a distress reading, the lender on title and exit timing.

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

Approach Gaston County by rank rather than by average — the 32/100 county figure conceals the spread, since the returns live in the top-scoring ZIPs. What supports the Gaston County read is documentary: filings from the recorder and courts, federal price and bank data, and blanks wherever coverage is thin.

Drilling in, Gaston County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 28012 (32/100), 28016 (32/100), 28032 (32/100), 28034 (32/100), 28052 (32/100), 28054 (32/100). DLRadar also scores 28056, 28077, 28098, 28101, 28120, 28006, 28021, 28033 and more across the county. Every one of these is scored independently — a ZIP's composite reflects its own recorded distress, which is why the county average alone hides where the real pressure sits.

DLRadar's composite for Gaston 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.