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

Across Lincoln County, North Carolina, DLRadar grades every ZIP for foreclosure, mortgage, tax and bank-stress distress. ZIP-level distress ranges from 31/100 at the top down to 30/100. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 33/100 (contained). The county spans 11 scored ZIP codes, averaging 30/100 composite distress.

Currently peak, Lincoln County saw prices rise 1.0% year over year, a 16/100-confidence read. On a market plateau, blanket buying underperforms — the edge is parcel by parcel.

Lincoln County's topped-out +1.0% YoY (16/100 confidence) means selectivity rules well beyond the county average. A steady 33/100 bank reading favors owner-driven distress more than bank stock.

The sharpest Lincoln County readings come from 28006 (31/100), 28021 (31/100), 28033 (31/100), 28164 (31/100), 28673 (31/100), 28037 (30/100) — open any for the parcel detail. Further scored ZIPs: 28080, 28090, 28092, 28168, 28650.

Underneath the scores, Lincoln County's tracked footprint show residents with a median age around 44.7, 82% owner-occupancy, home values averaging roughly $277,718, below the US, a 9.6% vacancy rate, a median household income near $75,732 (near the US norm), poverty running near 9.6%. Numbers like these set up the kind of distress to expect and the buyer pool on exit.

Net of it all, 30/100 over 11 ZIPs means Lincoln County rewards parcel-by-parcel work where the ZIP scores point. Unlock Lincoln County to see every parcel's owner, mailing address, APN, a distress score and bank-exposure read.

The distress read for Lincoln County, North Carolina is refreshed as new public records post and uses the same methodology coast to coast, so Lincoln County stays directly comparable to any other market you track.

The point of scoring Lincoln County, North Carolina is to narrow it — the high-composite ZIPs carry the distress, and everything below them rarely repays the outreach cost. All of it is deterministic and auditable: Lincoln County's numbers come from county recorders, the courts, FHFA and FDIC, with nothing interpolated or guessed when a source is sparse.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Lincoln County are 28006 (31/100), 28021 (31/100), 28033 (31/100), 28164 (31/100), 28673 (31/100), 28037 (30/100). DLRadar also scores 28080, 28090, 28092, 28168, 28650 across the county. Each code carries its own composite built from that ZIP's foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien and lender signals, so two neighboring ZIPs can diverge sharply even inside one county.

DLRadar's composite for Lincoln 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.