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

Johnston County, NC, North Carolina: 22 ZIP codes scored, Johnston County, NC averaging 32/100 (moderate, Johnston, NC), from 29 to 33. Johnston County, NC is in its peak phase (Johnston, NC confidence 10/100): Johnston, NC home prices up 0.7% (Johnston, NC) over twelve months. Johnston County, NC lender headwind: 60/100.

Highest-scoring Johnston County, NC ZIPs: 27557 (33/100), 27603 (33/100), 27610 (33/100), 27504 (32/100), 27520 (32/100), 27524 (32/100). Also scored in Johnston County, NC: 27527, 27529, 27542, 27555, 27568, 27569, 27576, 27577, 27591, 27592.

Across Johnston County, NC's scored ZIPs: median home value $262,071, household income $77,509, 9.1% vacancy, 12.5% poverty, 73% owner-occupied, median age 38.1.

Johnston County, NC insurance distress 75/100 (#508 in the US); FEMA hazard 78/100 for Johnston, NC; 6 federal disaster declarations in Johnston County, NC since 2023; 7 Johnston, NC NFIP flood claims, $62K paid; Johnston, NC construction distress 61/100.

13 banks with 37 branches lend in Johnston County, NC; Johnston, NC weighted bank stress 66/100, highest 95/100 in Johnston, NC.

Johnston County, NC unemployment 3.1% (Johnston, NC -0.2 pts, six months); 2,599 new housing units permitted in Johnston County, NC over twelve months, Johnston, NC down 14% from 3,031; Johnston, NC home prices +10.3% a year (Johnston, NC) over three years.

91,218 housing units in Johnston County, NC; 18,845 Johnston, NC renter households; 42% of Johnston, NC renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 20% (Johnston, NC) half or more.

Johnston County, NC ranks #1,610 nationally on the opportunity index (Johnston, NC, among all ranked counties); Johnston, NC scores 29.0/100 and Johnston, NC sits #68 inside North Carolina. Johnston, NC is in the early_signal opportunity phase; Johnston, NC's primary driver is bank institutional, Johnston, NC second driver construction; Johnston, NC moved up 222 places. 53 short-sale listings across Johnston, NC; 92 days on market observed in Johnston, NC; 7.0% vacancy over 22 Johnston, NC ZIPs.

1.1% of Johnston County, NC mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Johnston, NC's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 2.8% (CFPB county sample). Johnston, NC's ninety-day rate is unchanged on twelve months earlier; the Johnston, NC peak since 2008 was 4.8% in May 2010; North Carolina overall reads 0.9%.

Johnston County, NC has 6 watched banks; 6 Johnston, NC banks sit in an elevated band. Johnston, NC footprints: Ks Bank Inc (6 branches, stress 69) in Johnston, NC; First-Citizens Bank&Trust Co (5 branches, stress 71) in Johnston, NC; Truist Bank (5 branches, stress 62) in Johnston, NC.

HUD lists 12 assisted multifamily properties in Johnston County, NC with 1,246 units; 278 Johnston, NC units are assisted, 4 Johnston, NC properties under project-based Section 8.

5,627 of the 91,218 housing units in Johnston, NC sit vacant. Johnston County, NC permitted 10 multifamily units in twelve months; Johnston, NC's one-to-four unit structures added 2,589 units in Johnston County, NC.