Lee County, NC: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Lee County, NC, North Carolina: 5 ZIP codes scored, Lee County, NC averaging 29/100 (low, Lee, NC), from 27 to 31. Lee County, NC is in its peak phase (Lee, NC confidence 18/100): Lee, NC home prices up 1.9% (Lee, NC) over twelve months. Lee County, NC lender headwind: 46/100.
Highest-scoring Lee County, NC ZIPs: 27330 (31/100), 28355 (31/100), 27332 (29/100), 28326 (29/100), 27505 (27/100).
Across Lee County, NC's scored ZIPs: median home value $239,250, household income $69,718, 9.6% vacancy, 14.4% poverty, 68% owner-occupied, median age 35.3.
Lee County, NC insurance distress 84/100 (#259 in the US); FEMA hazard 90/100 for Lee, NC; 8 federal disaster declarations in Lee County, NC since 2023; 3 Lee, NC NFIP flood claims, $109K paid; Lee, NC construction distress 50/100.
10 banks with 14 branches lend in Lee County, NC; Lee, NC weighted bank stress 57/100, highest 71/100 in Lee, NC.
Lee County, NC unemployment 3.6% (Lee, NC -0.2 pts, six months); 640 new housing units permitted in Lee County, NC over twelve months, Lee, NC down 8% from 698; Lee, NC home prices +12.6% a year (Lee, NC) over three years.
27,166 housing units in Lee County, NC; 8,396 Lee, NC renter households; 41% of Lee, NC renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 20% (Lee, NC) half or more.
Lee County, NC ranks #1,445 nationally on the opportunity index (Lee, NC, among all ranked counties); Lee, NC scores 29.6/100 and Lee, NC sits #63 inside North Carolina. Lee, NC is in the early_signal opportunity phase; Lee, NC's primary driver is bank institutional, Lee, NC second driver construction; Lee, NC moved up 465 places. 4 short-sale listings across Lee, NC; 113 days on market observed in Lee, NC; 8.9% vacancy over 5 Lee, NC ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Lee County, NC. The non-metro area reading for Lee, NC: 1.3% ninety-plus days late; Lee, NC's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 3.4% (Lee, NC, December 2025 data); North Carolina overall 0.9%.
Lee County, NC has 4 watched banks; 4 Lee, NC banks sit in an elevated band. Lee, NC footprints: First Bank (3 branches, stress 47) in Lee, NC; First-Citizens Bank&Trust Co (2 branches, stress 71) in Lee, NC; Truist Bank (2 branches, stress 62) in Lee, NC.
HUD lists 4 assisted multifamily properties in Lee County, NC with 352 units; 62 Lee, NC units are assisted, 1 Lee, NC properties under project-based Section 8.
2,021 of the 27,166 housing units in Lee, NC sit vacant. Lee County, NC permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Lee, NC's one-to-four unit structures added 640 units in Lee County, NC.