Gates County, NC: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Gates County, NC, North Carolina: 7 ZIP codes scored, Gates County, NC averaging 16/100 (low, Gates, NC). Gates County, NC is in its peak phase (Gates, NC confidence 30/100): Gates, NC home prices up 3.4% (Gates, NC) over twelve months. Gates County, NC lender headwind: 78/100.
Highest-scoring Gates County, NC ZIPs: 27926 (16/100), 27935 (16/100), 27937 (16/100), 27938 (16/100), 27946 (16/100), 27969 (16/100). Also scored in Gates County, NC: 27979.
Across Gates County, NC's scored ZIPs: median home value $206,686, household income $63,616, 12.3% vacancy, 9.7% poverty, 79% owner-occupied, median age 48.4.
Gates County, NC insurance distress 40/100 (#1,313 in the US); FEMA hazard 78/100 for Gates, NC; 6 federal disaster declarations in Gates County, NC since 2023; Gates, NC construction distress 56/100.
1 bank with 1 branch lend in Gates County, NC; Gates, NC weighted bank stress 69/100.
Gates County, NC unemployment 3.6% (Gates, NC -0.1 pts, six months); 12 new housing units permitted in Gates County, NC over twelve months, Gates, NC down 8% from 13; Gates, NC home prices +8.4% a year (Gates, NC) over three years.
4,827 housing units in Gates County, NC; 747 Gates, NC renter households; 15% of Gates, NC renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 13% (Gates, NC) half or more.
Gates County, NC ranks #1,885 nationally on the opportunity index (Gates, NC, among all ranked counties); Gates, NC scores 28.1/100 and Gates, NC sits #87 inside North Carolina. Gates, NC is in the early_signal opportunity phase; Gates, NC's primary driver is vacancy, Gates, NC second driver construction; Gates, NC moved up 336 places. 9 days on market observed in Gates, NC; 11.5% vacancy over 7 Gates, NC ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Gates County, NC. The metro area reading for Gates, NC (Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC): 1.1% ninety-plus days late; Gates, NC's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 2.3% (Gates, NC, December 2025 data); North Carolina overall 0.9%.
Gates County, NC has 1 watched bank; 1 Gates, NC bank sits in an elevated band. Gates, NC footprints: Southern Bank&Trust Co (1 branch, stress 69) in Gates, NC.
635 of the 4,827 housing units in Gates, NC sit vacant. Gates County, NC permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Gates, NC's one-to-four unit structures added 12 units in Gates County, NC.