Haywood County, NC: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Every ZIP in Haywood County, North Carolina carries a DLRadar distress score assembled from foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender records. Bank/credit headwind for the county is 46 on a 0–100 scale, a moderate reading. The county spans 7 scored ZIP codes, averaging 31/100 composite distress. Individual Haywood County ZIPs score between 28 and 32 on the 0–100 composite.
The county market is in a peak phase: home prices rose 1.9% over the past year (phase confidence 18/100). With values leveling off, blanket buying underperforms leaving the wins in individual deals.
With Haywood County flat at +1.9% YoY (18/100 confidence), opportunity is parcel-specific well beyond the county average. Mid-range bank stress at 46/100 means a blend the ZIP scores sort out.
By composite, 28716 (32/100), 28721 (32/100), 28745 (32/100), 28785 (32/100), 28786 (32/100), 28751 (31/100) top the county — tap any ZIP to go deeper. Also scored across the county: 28743.
Demographically, Haywood County's scored ZIPs run a median household income near $60,779 (below the US norm), typical home values near $280,086, poverty running near 9.6%, 80% owner-occupancy, 33.4% of units sitting vacant, a median age of 49.7. Taken together, they shape how much distress reaches the market and how fast it moves.
At 31/100 composite over 7 ZIPs, Haywood County is a screen-by-ZIP market rather than a blanket buy. Inside DLRadar, each Haywood County property carries owner, address and APN, score, bank exposure and an exit-velocity estimate.
No county is too small to score: Haywood County, North Carolina runs through the same foreclosure, tax, lien and bank-stress model as every major metro, so Haywood County's numbers mean exactly what they mean anywhere else in North Carolina.
In Haywood County, North Carolina, the scores are a targeting tool first: they tell you which ZIPs hold the distress and which owners are most likely under real financial pressure, so limited acquisition effort lands where it converts. Every Haywood County signal ties to a named public source, and where the record is sparse DLRadar shows nothing instead of guessing.
Drilling in, Haywood County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 28716 (32/100), 28721 (32/100), 28745 (32/100), 28785 (32/100), 28786 (32/100), 28751 (31/100). DLRadar also scores 28743 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 Haywood 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.
| ZIP | State | Distress score | 🔒 Owner | 🔒 Property Address | 🔒 Parcel ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28716 | NC | 32 | |||
| 28721 | NC | 32 | |||
| 28745 | NC | 32 | |||
| 28785 | NC | 32 | |||
| 28786 | NC | 32 | |||
| 28751 | NC | 31 | |||
| 28743 | NC | 28 |
Top Haywood County ZIP codes by stress score
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