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

Every ZIP in Guilford County, North Carolina carries a DLRadar distress score assembled from foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender records. 35 ZIP codes are tracked county-wide, averaging 32/100 distress. ZIP-level distress ranges from 34/100 at the top down to 27/100. County-level credit and bank headwind reads 50/100.

The county market is in a peak phase: home prices rose 4.2% over the past year, at 25/100 phase confidence. With pricing topped out, broad sweeps stop paying — the edge is parcel by parcel.

With Guilford County flat at +4.2% YoY (25/100 confidence), the wins are surgical so the headline market won't hand it over. A mid-cycle 50/100 lender reading points to a blend the ZIP scores sort out.

Highest scores land in 27215 (34/100), 27284 (34/100), 27214 (32/100), 27235 (32/100), 27260 (32/100), 27262 (32/100); each opens to a full parcel breakdown. Further scored ZIPs: 27265, 27268, 27282, 27283, 27298, 27301, 27310, 27342, 27377, 27401.

Underneath the scores, Guilford County's tracked footprint report poverty running near 13%, 70% of homes owner-occupied, residents with a median age around 38, household income averaging about $68,900, roughly at the national median, home values averaging roughly $264,603, below the US, a 8.3% vacancy rate. Taken together, they set up how much distress reaches the market and how fast it moves.

With a moderate 32/100 reading over 35 ZIPs, the opportunity hides below the average — work it parcel by parcel. Inside DLRadar, each Guilford County property carries owner, address and APN, a per-parcel score, lender exposure and exit read.

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

The point of scoring Guilford County, North Carolina is to narrow it — the high-composite ZIPs carry the distress, and everything below them rarely repays the outreach cost. Every Guilford County signal ties to a named public source, and where the record is sparse DLRadar shows nothing instead of guessing.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Guilford County are 27215 (34/100), 27284 (34/100), 27214 (32/100), 27235 (32/100), 27260 (32/100), 27262 (32/100). DLRadar also scores 27265, 27268, 27282, 27283, 27298, 27301, 27310, 27342 and more across the county. Each code carries its own composite built from that ZIP's foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien and lender signals, so two neighboring ZIPs can diverge sharply even inside one county.

Under Guilford 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.