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

Richmond County, North Carolina is scored end-to-end by DLRadar for property distress, drawn only from deterministic public records. Coverage runs to 11 ZIPs across Richmond County, a low 21/100 average. Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 19 to 27 out of 100. Lender pressure in Richmond County registers 20/100 — a contained bank-stress headwind.

Currently peak, Richmond County saw prices rise 1.9% year over year, at 18/100 phase confidence. At this stage of the cycle, blanket buying underperforms leaving the wins in individual deals.

Near the cycle top at +1.9% YoY (18/100 confidence), selectivity rules well beyond the county average. A steady 20/100 bank reading favors tax, code and ownership-change cases over REO.

The most-distressed ZIP codes in Richmond County are 27281 (27/100), 28347 (24/100), 28351 (24/100), 28363 (23/100), 28330 (20/100), 28338 (20/100), each with its own full DLRadar report. Further scored ZIPs: 28345, 28367, 28379, 27229, 27306.

On the housing-and-income side, Richmond County's tracked footprint report a 17.7% vacancy rate, 72% of homes owner-occupied, residents with a median age around 42.4, poverty running near 25.6%, typical home values near $143,156, household income averaging about $47,954, below the national median. Numbers like these signal the depth of motivated supply and the pace of resale.

All in at 21/100 over 11 ZIPs, the edge is selective acquisition and not a county-wide play. Unlock Richmond County to see every parcel's owner, address and APN, a parcel-level score plus bank exposure and liquidity read.

Whether Richmond 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 Richmond County can be compared directly against any county in the country.

The way to work Richmond County, North Carolina is top-down — start with the highest-scoring ZIPs (up to 27/100 here), then drill to the parcels driving those numbers, rather than blanketing Richmond County with undifferentiated outreach. The Richmond County figures are auditable line by line — county recorders and courts, FHFA price data, FDIC bank filings — with gaps left visible rather than filled by estimate.

The ZIP breakdown for Richmond County leads with 27281 (27/100), 28347 (24/100), 28351 (24/100), 28363 (23/100), 28330 (20/100), 28338 (20/100). DLRadar also scores 28345, 28367, 28379, 27229, 27306 across the county. Because each ZIP is graded on its own foreclosure, tax and lender record, the county's distress is best read code by code rather than as a single number.

DLRadar's composite for Richmond 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.