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

Orange County, NC, North Carolina: 15 ZIP codes scored, Orange County, NC averaging 27/100 (low, Orange, NC), from 22 to 30. Orange County, NC is in its peak phase (Orange, NC confidence 12/100): Orange, NC home prices up 1.3% (Orange, NC) over twelve months. Orange County, NC lender headwind: 48/100.

Highest-scoring Orange County, NC ZIPs: 27707 (30/100), 27712 (30/100), 27278 (29/100), 27302 (29/100), 27705 (29/100), 27231 (28/100). Also scored in Orange County, NC: 27243, 27510, 27514, 27516, 27517, 27599, 27572, 27583, 27541.

Across Orange County, NC's scored ZIPs: median home value $399,071, household income $88,054, 8.1% vacancy, 11.1% poverty, 70% owner-occupied, median age 39.9.

Orange County, NC insurance distress 86/100 (#190 in the US); FEMA hazard 78/100 for Orange, NC; 8 federal disaster declarations in Orange County, NC since 2023; 185 Orange, NC NFIP flood claims, $21.8M paid; Orange, NC construction distress 2/100.

11 banks with 26 branches lend in Orange County, NC; Orange, NC weighted bank stress 64/100, highest 71/100 in Orange, NC.

Orange County, NC unemployment 3.5% (Orange, NC +0.2 pts, six months); 1,065 new housing units permitted in Orange County, NC over twelve months, Orange, NC up 82% from 584; Orange, NC home prices +12.2% a year (Orange, NC) over three years.

62,858 housing units in Orange County, NC; 20,187 Orange, NC renter households; 51% of Orange, NC renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 30% (Orange, NC) half or more.

Orange County, NC ranks #2,301 nationally on the opportunity index (Orange, NC, among all ranked counties); Orange, NC scores 26.7/100 and Orange, NC sits #97 inside North Carolina. Orange, NC is in the weak opportunity phase; Orange, NC's primary driver is bank institutional, Orange, NC second driver vacancy; Orange, NC moved up 326 places. 43 short-sale listings across Orange, NC; 98 days on market observed in Orange, NC; 9.0% vacancy over 15 Orange, NC ZIPs.

0.4% of Orange County, NC mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Orange, NC's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 1.0% (CFPB county sample). Orange, NC's ninety-day rate is down 0.4 points on twelve months earlier; the Orange, NC peak since 2008 was 1.9% in April 2010; North Carolina overall reads 0.9%.

Orange County, NC has 3 watched banks; 3 Orange, NC banks sit in an elevated band. Orange, NC footprints: Truist Bank (4 branches, stress 62) in Orange, NC; Bank Of America Na (3 branches, stress 71) in Orange, NC; First-Citizens Bank&Trust Co (1 branch, stress 71) in Orange, NC.

HUD lists 12 assisted multifamily properties in Orange County, NC with 752 units; 180 Orange, NC units are assisted, 2 Orange, NC properties under project-based Section 8.

5,516 of the 62,858 housing units in Orange, NC sit vacant. Orange County, NC permitted 713 multifamily units in twelve months; Orange, NC's one-to-four unit structures added 352 units in Orange County, NC.