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

Across Pender County, North Carolina, DLRadar grades every ZIP for foreclosure, mortgage, tax and bank-stress distress. Lender pressure in Pender County registers 42/100 — a moderate bank-stress headwind. Individual Pender County ZIPs score between 29 and 36 on the 0–100 composite. The county spans 13 scored ZIP codes, averaging 31/100 composite distress.

The peak-phase county posted home values that rose 3.5% over twelve months, a 23/100-confidence read. With pricing topped out, blanket buying underperforms leaving the wins in individual deals.

Near the cycle top at +3.5% YoY (23/100 confidence), selectivity rules — target the few ZIPs carrying distress. A moderate 42/100 lender headwind means mixed owner- and bank-driven distress.

Top distress by ZIP runs 28401 (36/100), 28411 (36/100), 28448 (34/100), 28447 (31/100), 28421 (30/100), 28425 (30/100), listed with every scored ZIP below. The breakdown continues through 28435, 28443, 28445, 28454, 28457, 28478, 28466 and more.

On the housing-and-income side, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Pender County show household income averaging about $76,712, roughly at the national median, a median age of 42.2, a 11.6% poverty rate, an owner-occupied share of 78%, a 19.2% vacancy rate, median home values around $244,023 (below the national figure). Numbers like these drive who sells under pressure and how fast a deal moves.

Net of it all, 31/100 over 13 ZIPs means distress here is parcel-specific and not a county-wide play. A DLRadar subscription opens every Pender County parcel: owner, APN and address, its own score, the lender behind it and an exit read.

Whether Pender County, North Carolina carries heavy distress or only a handful of flagged parcels, every score here is built the same deterministic way — from recorded foreclosures, tax delinquency, liens and lender stress — so Pender County can be compared directly against any county in the country.

Read Pender County, North Carolina as a heat map for effort — the county's moderate composite of 31/100 hides wide ZIP-level variation, and the return comes from chasing the hot ZIPs, not the average. The Pender County scoring is reproducible from public sources alone, and DLRadar declines to estimate where the underlying record is incomplete.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Pender County are 28401 (36/100), 28411 (36/100), 28448 (34/100), 28447 (31/100), 28421 (30/100), 28425 (30/100). DLRadar also scores 28435, 28443, 28445, 28454, 28457, 28478, 28466 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 Pender 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.