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

For Hertford County, North Carolina, DLRadar turns county and parcel public records into a single distress score per ZIP. Bank/credit headwind for the county is 63 on a 0–100 scale, a elevated reading. Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 23 to 29 out of 100. There are 9 scored ZIPs in the county (mean composite 28/100).

The peak-phase county posted home values that rose 2.8% over twelve months, at 22/100 phase confidence. On a market plateau, the average masks the outliers — the edge is parcel by parcel.

Near the cycle top at +2.8% YoY (22/100 confidence), the wins are surgical — target the few ZIPs carrying distress. Its 63/100 lender headwind favors patient capital: banks under pressure move REO faster.

The most-distressed ZIP codes in Hertford County are 27818 (29/100), 27922 (29/100), 27924 (29/100), 27942 (29/100), 27986 (29/100), 27805 (28/100), each with its own full DLRadar report. Also scored across the county: 27910, 27855, 27897.

By the numbers, Hertford County's tracked footprint come in at 19.3% of units sitting vacant, a median age of 47.3, a median household income near $47,606 (below the US norm), 68% of homes owner-occupied, 20.1% of households below the poverty line, home values averaging roughly $115,211, below the US. Numbers like these frame which owners come under strain and how quickly stock clears.

All in at 28/100 over 9 ZIPs, distress here is parcel-specific rather than a blanket buy. Subscribers get each Hertford County parcel's owner and contact detail, APN, per-parcel scoring with lender exposure and resale velocity.

No county is too small to score: Hertford County, North Carolina runs through the same foreclosure, tax, lien and bank-stress model as every major metro, so Hertford County's numbers mean exactly what they mean anywhere else in North Carolina.

Approach Hertford County by rank rather than by average — the 28/100 county figure conceals the spread, since the returns live in the top-scoring ZIPs. Every Hertford County signal ties to a named public source, and where the record is sparse DLRadar shows nothing instead of guessing.

Drilling in, Hertford County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 27818 (29/100), 27922 (29/100), 27924 (29/100), 27942 (29/100), 27986 (29/100), 27805 (28/100). DLRadar also scores 27910, 27855, 27897 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.

The Hertford County score is not a single measure but a composite: foreclosure activity, mortgage and tax-lien stress, and local lender headwind each feed it, which is why understanding the components matters as much as the headline number.