Guilford County, NC: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Guilford County, NC, North Carolina: 35 ZIP codes scored, Guilford County, NC averaging 30/100 (moderate, Guilford, NC), from 25 to 33. Guilford County, NC is in its peak phase (Guilford, NC confidence 25/100): Guilford, NC home prices up 4.2% (Guilford, NC) over twelve months. Guilford County, NC lender headwind: 50/100.
Highest-scoring Guilford County, NC ZIPs: 27284 (33/100), 27215 (32/100), 27235 (31/100), 27260 (31/100), 27262 (31/100), 27265 (31/100). Also scored in Guilford County, NC: 27268, 27282, 27283, 27301, 27310, 27342, 27377, 27401, 27403, 27405.
Across Guilford County, NC's scored ZIPs: median home value $264,603, household income $68,900, 8.3% vacancy, 13.0% poverty, 70% owner-occupied, median age 38.0.
Guilford County, NC insurance distress 82/100 (#295 in the US); FEMA hazard 78/100 for Guilford, NC; 6 federal disaster declarations in Guilford County, NC since 2023; 35 Guilford, NC NFIP flood claims, $948K paid; Guilford, NC construction distress 27/100.
22 banks with 103 branches lend in Guilford County, NC; Guilford, NC weighted bank stress 62/100, highest 89/100 in Guilford, NC.
Guilford County, NC unemployment 4.2% (Guilford, NC -0.1 pts, six months); 3,430 new housing units permitted in Guilford County, NC over twelve months, Guilford, NC up 24% from 2,768; Guilford, NC home prices +11.5% a year (Guilford, NC) over three years.
238,032 housing units in Guilford County, NC; 86,410 Guilford, NC renter households; 47% of Guilford, NC renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 21% (Guilford, NC) half or more.
Guilford County, NC ranks #1,931 nationally on the opportunity index (Guilford, NC, among all ranked counties); Guilford, NC scores 27.9/100 and Guilford, NC sits #82 inside North Carolina. Guilford, NC is in the early_signal opportunity phase; Guilford, NC's primary driver is bank institutional, Guilford, NC second driver vacancy; Guilford, NC moved up 444 places. 73 short-sale listings across Guilford, NC; 102 days on market observed in Guilford, NC; 8.5% vacancy over 35 Guilford, NC ZIPs.
0.9% of Guilford County, NC mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Guilford, NC's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 3.0% (CFPB county sample). Guilford, NC's ninety-day rate is down 0.1 points on twelve months earlier; the Guilford, NC peak since 2008 was 4.1% in September 2010; North Carolina overall reads 0.9%.
Guilford County, NC has 9 watched banks; 9 Guilford, NC banks sit in an elevated band. Guilford, NC footprints: Truist Bank (16 branches, stress 62) in Guilford, NC; Bank Of America Na (10 branches, stress 71) in Guilford, NC; First-Citizens Bank&Trust Co (8 branches, stress 71) in Guilford, NC.
HUD lists 46 assisted multifamily properties in Guilford County, NC with 4,817 units; 1,470 Guilford, NC units are assisted, 18 Guilford, NC properties under project-based Section 8.
18,314 of the 238,032 housing units in Guilford, NC sit vacant. Guilford County, NC permitted 1,855 multifamily units in twelve months; Guilford, NC's one-to-four unit structures added 1,575 units in Guilford County, NC.