New Hanover County, NC: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

New Hanover County, NC, North Carolina: 10 ZIP codes scored, New Hanover County, NC averaging 35/100 (moderate, New Hanover, NC). New Hanover County, NC is in its peak phase (New Hanover, NC confidence 23/100): New Hanover, NC home prices up 3.5% (New Hanover, NC) over twelve months. New Hanover County, NC lender headwind: 36/100.

Highest-scoring New Hanover County, NC ZIPs: 28401 (35/100), 28403 (35/100), 28405 (35/100), 28409 (35/100), 28411 (35/100), 28412 (35/100). Also scored in New Hanover County, NC: 28428, 28429, 28449, 28480.

Across New Hanover County, NC's scored ZIPs: median home value $494,800, household income $75,956, 22.1% vacancy, 11.2% poverty, 68% owner-occupied, median age 44.5.

New Hanover County, NC insurance distress 91/100 (#83 in the US); FEMA hazard 90/100 for New Hanover, NC; 8 federal disaster declarations in New Hanover County, NC since 2023; 431 New Hanover, NC NFIP flood claims, $15.2M paid; New Hanover, NC construction distress 51/100.

22 banks with 55 branches lend in New Hanover County, NC; New Hanover, NC weighted bank stress 57/100, highest 80/100 in New Hanover, NC.

New Hanover County, NC unemployment 3.3% (New Hanover, NC -0.2 pts, six months); 2,398 new housing units permitted in New Hanover County, NC over twelve months, New Hanover, NC down 1% from 2,421; New Hanover, NC home prices +13.0% a year (New Hanover, NC) over three years.

120,050 housing units in New Hanover County, NC; 40,233 New Hanover, NC renter households; 50% of New Hanover, NC renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 26% (New Hanover, NC) half or more.

New Hanover County, NC ranks #1,311 nationally on the opportunity index (New Hanover, NC, among all ranked counties); New Hanover, NC scores 30.1/100 and New Hanover, NC sits #60 inside North Carolina. New Hanover, NC is in the early_signal opportunity phase; New Hanover, NC's primary driver is vacancy, New Hanover, NC second driver construction; New Hanover, NC moved up 312 places. 43 short-sale listings across New Hanover, NC; 115 days on market observed in New Hanover, NC; 10.4% vacancy over 10 New Hanover, NC ZIPs.

0.6% of New Hanover County, NC mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; New Hanover, NC's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 1.4% (CFPB county sample). New Hanover, NC's ninety-day rate is up 0.3 points on twelve months earlier; the New Hanover, NC peak since 2008 was 4.7% in January 2012; North Carolina overall reads 0.9%.

New Hanover County, NC has 8 watched banks; 8 New Hanover, NC banks sit in an elevated band. New Hanover, NC footprints: Truist Bank (7 branches, stress 62) in New Hanover, NC; First-Citizens Bank&Trust Co (6 branches, stress 71) in New Hanover, NC; First Bank (5 branches, stress 47) in New Hanover, NC.

HUD lists 25 assisted multifamily properties in New Hanover County, NC with 3,535 units; 544 New Hanover, NC units are assisted, 5 New Hanover, NC properties under project-based Section 8.

15,194 of the 120,050 housing units in New Hanover, NC sit vacant. New Hanover County, NC permitted 1,231 multifamily units in twelve months; New Hanover, NC's one-to-four unit structures added 1,167 units in New Hanover County, NC.