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

Gates County, North Carolina is scored end-to-end by DLRadar for property distress, drawn only from deterministic public records. The county spans 7 scored ZIP codes, averaging 16/100 composite distress. On bank and credit headwind, Gates County scores 78/100, a stressed reading.

The peak-phase county posted home values that rose 3.4% over twelve months, a 30/100-confidence read. With values leveling off, the opportunity narrows with opportunity concentrated by ZIP.

Near the cycle top at +3.4% YoY (30/100 confidence), the wins are surgical — target the few ZIPs carrying distress. Bank stress at 78/100 is a buyer tailwind: short sales and foreclosures accelerate.

The sharpest Gates County readings come from 27926 (16/100), 27935 (16/100), 27937 (16/100), 27938 (16/100), 27946 (16/100), 27969 (16/100) — open any for the parcel detail. Coverage extends to 27979 among others.

Demographically, Gates County's tracked footprint come in at a median household income near $63,616 (below the US norm), residents with a median age around 48.4, 9.7% of households below the poverty line, 12.3% of units sitting vacant, 79% of homes owner-occupied, median home values around $206,686 (below the national figure). Numbers like these set up where pressure builds and how liquid the exit will be.

At 16/100 composite over 7 ZIPs, distress here is parcel-specific rather than a blanket buy. Inside DLRadar, each Gates County property carries owner, APN and address, scoring, lienholder detail and an estimated exit speed.

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

Scores in Gates County, North Carolina exist to concentrate effort: a handful of ZIPs hold most of the distress, and the rest seldom justify the acquisition cost. Provenance for Gates County is explicit: recorders and courts for filings, FHFA for prices, FDIC for lenders. No interpolation, no synthetic values.

Drilling in, Gates County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 27926 (16/100), 27935 (16/100), 27937 (16/100), 27938 (16/100), 27946 (16/100), 27969 (16/100). DLRadar also scores 27979 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.

Under Gates 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.