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

Surry County, North Carolina is scored end-to-end by DLRadar for property distress, drawn only from deterministic public records. Bank/credit headwind for the county is 32 on a 0–100 scale, a contained reading. There are 12 scored ZIPs in the county (mean composite 25/100). Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 23 to 28 out of 100.

In its peak phase, Surry County home prices rose 1.9% across the last year, a 18/100-confidence read. This late in the run, the opportunity narrows — the edge is parcel by parcel.

Near the cycle top at +1.9% YoY (18/100 confidence), the wins are surgical well beyond the county average. A steady 32/100 bank reading points the search to tax, code and ownership-change cases over REO.

Top distress by ZIP runs 28621 (28/100), 28683 (28/100), 28676 (27/100), 27007 (25/100), 27017 (25/100), 27024 (25/100), listed with every scored ZIP below. Coverage extends to 27030, 27041, 27043, 27047, 27053, 28623 among others.

Demographically, Surry County's tracked footprint run 14.1% of households below the poverty line, an owner-occupied share of 80%, a median household income near $56,281 (below the US norm), 14.8% of units sitting vacant, median home values around $196,175 (below the national figure), residents with a median age around 45.3. Read together, they signal the supply of motivated sellers and the speed of resale.

Net of it all, 25/100 over 12 ZIPs means distress here is parcel-specific rather than a blanket buy. Subscribers get each Surry County parcel's owner, address and APN, its own score, the lender behind it and an exit read.

The distress read for Surry County, North Carolina is refreshed as new public records post and uses the same methodology coast to coast, so Surry County stays directly comparable to any other market you track.

The practical read on Surry County, North Carolina is a targeting one — find the ZIPs holding real financial pressure, then work the parcels underneath them. The Surry 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.

Drilling in, Surry County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 28621 (28/100), 28683 (28/100), 28676 (27/100), 27007 (25/100), 27017 (25/100), 27024 (25/100). DLRadar also scores 27030, 27041, 27043, 27047, 27053, 28623 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 Surry 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.