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

Moore County, NC, North Carolina: 19 ZIP codes scored, Moore County, NC averaging 34/100 (moderate, Moore, NC), from 22 to 42. Moore County, NC is in its contraction phase (Moore, NC confidence 68/100): Moore, NC home prices down 3.0% (Moore, NC) over twelve months, 3.0% under their peak. Moore County, NC lender headwind: 44/100.

Highest-scoring Moore County, NC ZIPs: 27242 (42/100), 27259 (42/100), 27376 (42/100), 28327 (42/100), 28350 (42/100), 28373 (42/100). Also scored in Moore County, NC: 28374, 28387, 28394, 27325, 27330, 27208, 28315, 27341, 28326, 27281.

Across Moore County, NC's scored ZIPs: median home value $253,781, household income $73,249, 21.0% vacancy, 13.5% poverty, 75% owner-occupied, median age 40.7.

Moore County, NC insurance distress 83/100 (#273 in the US); FEMA hazard 78/100 for Moore, NC; 8 federal disaster declarations in Moore County, NC since 2023; 27 Moore, NC NFIP flood claims, $1.2M paid; Moore, NC construction distress 41/100.

11 banks with 27 branches lend in Moore County, NC; Moore, NC weighted bank stress 56/100, highest 71/100 in Moore, NC.

Moore County, NC unemployment 3.2% (Moore, NC -0.2 pts, six months); 1,021 new housing units permitted in Moore County, NC over twelve months, Moore, NC up 8% from 946; Moore, NC home prices +13.7% a year (Moore, NC) over three years.

50,280 housing units in Moore County, NC; 10,133 Moore, NC renter households; 43% of Moore, NC renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 19% (Moore, NC) half or more.

Moore County, NC ranks #1,054 nationally on the opportunity index (Moore, NC, among all ranked counties); Moore, NC scores 31.0/100 and Moore, NC sits #53 inside North Carolina. Moore, NC is in the early_signal opportunity phase; Moore, NC's primary driver is vacancy, Moore, NC second driver bank institutional; Moore, NC moved down 12 places. 5 short-sale listings across Moore, NC; 120 days on market observed in Moore, NC; 13.0% vacancy over 19 Moore, NC ZIPs.

0.3% of Moore County, NC mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Moore, NC's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 1.2% (CFPB county sample). Moore, NC's ninety-day rate is down 0.3 points on twelve months earlier; the Moore, NC peak since 2008 was 2.7% in January 2013; North Carolina overall reads 0.9%.

Moore County, NC has 5 watched banks; 5 Moore, NC banks sit in an elevated band. Moore, NC footprints: First Bank (11 branches, stress 47) in Moore, NC; Truist Bank (4 branches, stress 62) in Moore, NC; First-Citizens Bank&Trust Co (2 branches, stress 71) in Moore, NC.

HUD lists 12 assisted multifamily properties in Moore County, NC with 438 units; 139 Moore, NC units are assisted.

6,267 of the 50,280 housing units in Moore, NC sit vacant. Moore County, NC permitted 52 multifamily units in twelve months; Moore, NC's one-to-four unit structures added 969 units in Moore County, NC.