Lenoir County, NC: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Lenoir County, NC, North Carolina: 10 ZIP codes scored, Lenoir County, NC averaging 27/100 (low, Lenoir, NC), from 21 to 32. Lenoir County, NC is in its peak phase (Lenoir, NC confidence 18/100): Lenoir, NC home prices up 1.9% (Lenoir, NC) over twelve months. Lenoir County, NC lender headwind: 44/100.
Highest-scoring Lenoir County, NC ZIPs: 28526 (32/100), 28578 (30/100), 28530 (29/100), 28501 (28/100), 28504 (28/100), 28525 (28/100). Also scored in Lenoir County, NC: 28551, 28572, 28538, 28580.
Across Lenoir County, NC's scored ZIPs: median home value $120,810, household income $46,888, 13.7% vacancy, 20.8% poverty, 65% owner-occupied, median age 42.5.
Lenoir County, NC insurance distress 70/100 (#623 in the US); FEMA hazard 78/100 for Lenoir, NC; 6 federal disaster declarations in Lenoir County, NC since 2023; 2 Lenoir, NC NFIP flood claims, $12K paid; Lenoir, NC construction distress 31/100.
7 banks with 11 branches lend in Lenoir County, NC; Lenoir, NC weighted bank stress 62/100, highest 71/100 in Lenoir, NC.
Lenoir County, NC unemployment 3.9%; 153 new housing units permitted in Lenoir County, NC over twelve months, Lenoir, NC up 22% from 125; Lenoir, NC home prices +12.1% a year (Lenoir, NC) over three years.
26,879 housing units in Lenoir County, NC; 9,342 Lenoir, NC renter households; 38% of Lenoir, NC renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 17% (Lenoir, NC) half or more.
Lenoir County, NC ranks #623 nationally on the opportunity index (Lenoir, NC, among all ranked counties); Lenoir, NC scores 32.8/100 and Lenoir, NC sits #32 inside North Carolina. Lenoir, NC is in the peak_opportunity opportunity phase; Lenoir, NC's primary driver is vacancy, Lenoir, NC second driver bank institutional; Lenoir, NC moved up 683 places. 2 short-sale listings across Lenoir, NC; 60 days on market observed in Lenoir, NC; 12.9% vacancy over 10 Lenoir, NC ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Lenoir County, NC. The non-metro area reading for Lenoir, NC: 1.3% ninety-plus days late; Lenoir, NC's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 3.4% (Lenoir, NC, December 2025 data); North Carolina overall 0.9%.
Lenoir County, NC has 3 watched banks; 3 Lenoir, NC banks sit in an elevated band. Lenoir, NC footprints: First-Citizens Bank&Trust Co (2 branches, stress 71) in Lenoir, NC; Southern Bank&Trust Co (2 branches, stress 69) in Lenoir, NC; Truist Bank (2 branches, stress 62) in Lenoir, NC.
HUD lists 2 assisted multifamily properties in Lenoir County, NC with 86 units; 86 Lenoir, NC units are assisted, 2 Lenoir, NC properties under project-based Section 8.
3,528 of the 26,879 housing units in Lenoir, NC sit vacant. Lenoir County, NC permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Lenoir, NC's one-to-four unit structures added 153 units in Lenoir County, NC.