Wake County, NC: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Wake County, NC, North Carolina: 41 ZIP codes scored, Wake County, NC averaging 32/100 (moderate, Wake, NC), from 22 to 33. Wake County, NC is in its peak phase (Wake, NC confidence 10/100): Wake, NC home prices up 0.7% (Wake, NC) over twelve months. Wake County, NC lender headwind: 46/100.
Highest-scoring Wake County, NC ZIPs: 27511 (33/100), 27513 (33/100), 27518 (33/100), 27519 (33/100), 27539 (33/100), 27545 (33/100). Also scored in Wake County, NC: 27560, 27571, 27601, 27603, 27604, 27605, 27606, 27607, 27608, 27609.
Across Wake County, NC's scored ZIPs: median home value $475,274, household income $101,834, 7.3% vacancy, 8.1% poverty, 67% owner-occupied, median age 37.3.
Wake County, NC insurance distress 79/100 (#381 in the US); FEMA hazard 78/100 for Wake, NC; 6 federal disaster declarations in Wake County, NC since 2023; 25 Wake, NC NFIP flood claims, $363K paid; Wake, NC construction distress 45/100.
36 banks with 242 branches lend in Wake County, NC; Wake, NC weighted bank stress 62/100, highest 95/100 in Wake, NC.
Wake County, NC unemployment 3.1% (Wake, NC -0.2 pts, six months); 14,581 new housing units permitted in Wake County, NC over twelve months, Wake, NC up 5% from 13,869; Wake, NC home prices +11.0% a year (Wake, NC) over three years.
496,047 housing units in Wake County, NC; 158,527 Wake, NC renter households; 46% of Wake, NC renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 21% (Wake, NC) half or more.
Wake County, NC ranks #1,861 nationally on the opportunity index (Wake, NC, among all ranked counties); Wake, NC scores 28.2/100 and Wake, NC sits #78 inside North Carolina. Wake, NC is in the early_signal opportunity phase; Wake, NC's primary driver is bank institutional, Wake, NC second driver construction; Wake, NC moved up 276 places. 152 short-sale listings across Wake, NC; 80 days on market observed in Wake, NC; 7.3% vacancy over 41 Wake, NC ZIPs.
0.5% of Wake County, NC mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Wake, NC's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 1.4% (CFPB county sample). Wake, NC's ninety-day rate is up 0.1 points on twelve months earlier; the Wake, NC peak since 2008 was 2.9% in January 2011; North Carolina overall reads 0.9%.
Wake County, NC has 15 watched banks; 15 Wake, NC banks sit in an elevated band. Wake, NC footprints: Truist Bank (28 branches, stress 62) in Wake, NC; Bank Of America Na (19 branches, stress 71) in Wake, NC; First-Citizens Bank&Trust Co (18 branches, stress 71) in Wake, NC.
HUD lists 57 assisted multifamily properties in Wake County, NC with 6,989 units; 801 Wake, NC units are assisted, 10 Wake, NC properties under project-based Section 8.
35,872 of the 496,047 housing units in Wake, NC sit vacant. Wake County, NC permitted 6,055 multifamily units in twelve months; Wake, NC's one-to-four unit structures added 8,526 units in Wake County, NC.