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

Pitt County, NC, North Carolina: 18 ZIP codes scored, Pitt County, NC averaging 28/100 (low, Pitt, NC), from 23 to 32. Pitt County, NC is in its neutral phase (Pitt, NC confidence 42/100): Pitt, NC home prices up 3.4% (Pitt, NC) over twelve months. Pitt County, NC lender headwind: 48/100.

Highest-scoring Pitt County, NC ZIPs: 28586 (32/100), 27889 (30/100), 27827 (29/100), 27829 (29/100), 27834 (29/100), 27837 (29/100). Also scored in Pitt County, NC: 27858, 27879, 27884, 28590, 27812, 27852, 28513, 28530, 27886, 27828.

Across Pitt County, NC's scored ZIPs: median home value $147,033, household income $57,284, 12.3% vacancy, 16.7% poverty, 71% owner-occupied, median age 42.5.

Pitt County, NC insurance distress 78/100 (#410 in the US); FEMA hazard 78/100 for Pitt, NC; 6 federal disaster declarations in Pitt County, NC since 2023; 16 Pitt, NC NFIP flood claims, $222K paid; Pitt, NC construction distress 25/100.

12 banks with 32 branches lend in Pitt County, NC; Pitt, NC weighted bank stress 60/100, highest 71/100 in Pitt, NC.

Pitt County, NC unemployment 4.3% (Pitt, NC +0.3 pts, six months); 1,762 new housing units permitted in Pitt County, NC over twelve months, Pitt, NC up 26% from 1,399; Pitt, NC home prices +10.4% a year (Pitt, NC) over three years.

82,638 housing units in Pitt County, NC; 36,020 Pitt, NC renter households; 44% of Pitt, NC renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 24% (Pitt, NC) half or more.

Pitt County, NC ranks #1,759 nationally on the opportunity index (Pitt, NC, among all ranked counties); Pitt, NC scores 28.6/100 and Pitt, NC sits #72 inside North Carolina. Pitt, NC is in the early_signal opportunity phase; Pitt, NC's primary driver is bank institutional, Pitt, NC second driver vacancy; Pitt, NC moved up 529 places. 18 short-sale listings across Pitt, NC; 113 days on market observed in Pitt, NC; 10.1% vacancy over 18 Pitt, NC ZIPs.

1.4% of Pitt County, NC mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Pitt, NC's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 3.1% (CFPB county sample). Pitt, NC's ninety-day rate is up 0.2 points on twelve months earlier; the Pitt, NC peak since 2008 was 3.5% in November 2009; North Carolina overall reads 0.9%.

Pitt County, NC has 5 watched banks; 5 Pitt, NC banks sit in an elevated band. Pitt, NC footprints: Truist Bank (6 branches, stress 62) in Pitt, NC; Southern Bank&Trust Co (5 branches, stress 69) in Pitt, NC; First-Citizens Bank&Trust Co (4 branches, stress 71) in Pitt, NC.

HUD lists 10 assisted multifamily properties in Pitt County, NC with 993 units; 458 Pitt, NC units are assisted, 4 Pitt, NC properties under project-based Section 8.

8,105 of the 82,638 housing units in Pitt, NC sit vacant. Pitt County, NC permitted 859 multifamily units in twelve months; Pitt, NC's one-to-four unit structures added 903 units in Pitt County, NC.