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

Onslow County, North Carolina is mapped parcel-to-ZIP by DLRadar's public-record distress engine. There are 17 scored ZIPs in the county (mean composite 30/100). Lender pressure in Onslow County registers 36/100 — a moderate bank-stress headwind. The county's ZIP scores run from 28 up to 34/100.

In its peak phase, Onslow County home prices rose 3.6% across the last year, at 41/100 phase confidence. On a market plateau, distress turns selective as the ZIP scores below show.

Near the cycle top at +3.6% YoY (41/100 confidence), opportunity is parcel-specific and a county-wide sweep stays on the shelf. Mid-range bank stress at 36/100 points to mixed owner- and bank-driven distress.

The sharpest Onslow County readings come from 28584 (34/100), 28582 (32/100), 28445 (30/100), 28454 (30/100), 28460 (30/100), 28539 (30/100) — open any for the parcel detail. The breakdown continues through 28540, 28542, 28543, 28544, 28546, 28547, 28574, 28518, 28521, 28555 and more.

On the housing-and-income side, the Onslow County ZIPs on file run a 17.9% vacancy rate, a median age of 33.6, 60% owner-occupancy, household income averaging about $66,183, below the national median, home values averaging roughly $233,364, below the US, poverty running near 10.9%. Income, equity and tenure like these signal the supply of motivated sellers and the speed of resale.

At 30/100 composite over 17 ZIPs, the opportunity hides below the average — work it parcel by parcel. Subscribers get each Onslow County parcel's owner and contact detail, APN, a score, the bank behind the note and how fast it should sell.

Because Onslow County, North Carolina is scored on the identical public-record model used nationwide, even a quiet county is measured on one scale — letting you weigh Onslow County against neighboring markets or the rest of North Carolina on equal footing.

Approach Onslow County by rank rather than by average — the 30/100 county figure conceals the spread, since the returns live in the top-scoring ZIPs. Every Onslow County signal ties to a named public source, and where the record is sparse DLRadar shows nothing instead of guessing.

Drilling in, Onslow County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 28584 (34/100), 28582 (32/100), 28445 (30/100), 28454 (30/100), 28460 (30/100), 28539 (30/100). DLRadar also scores 28540, 28542, 28543, 28544, 28546, 28547, 28574, 28518 and more across the county. Every one of these is scored independently — a ZIP's composite reflects its own recorded distress, which is why the county average alone hides where the real pressure sits.

DLRadar's composite for Onslow 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.