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

For Wake County, North Carolina, DLRadar turns county and parcel public records into a single distress score per ZIP. County-level credit and bank headwind reads 46/100. Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 24 to 34 out of 100. 41 ZIP codes are tracked county-wide, averaging 33/100 distress.

The peak-phase county posted home values that rose 0.7% over twelve months, at 10/100 phase confidence. With values leveling off, the average masks the outliers as the ZIP scores below show.

With Wake County flat at +0.7% YoY (10/100 confidence), selectivity rules well beyond the county average. A moderate 46/100 lender headwind implies mixed owner- and bank-driven distress.

The most-distressed ZIP codes in Wake County are 27502 (34/100), 27511 (34/100), 27513 (34/100), 27518 (34/100), 27519 (34/100), 27539 (34/100), each with its own full DLRadar report. Other tracked Wake County ZIPs include 27545, 27560, 27571, 27601, 27603, 27604, 27605, 27606, 27607, 27608.

Underneath the scores, Wake County's scored ZIPs run poverty running near 8.1%, vacancy near 7.3%, a median household income near $101,834 (above the US norm), home values averaging roughly $475,274, above the US, residents with a median age around 37.3, 67% of homes owner-occupied. Income, equity and tenure like these shape who is forced to sell and how readily the market absorbs it.

With a moderate 33/100 reading over 41 ZIPs, Wake County is a screen-by-ZIP market where the ZIP scores point. Subscribers get each Wake County parcel's owner, mailing address, APN, a parcel-level score plus bank exposure and liquidity read.

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

In Wake County, North Carolina, the scores are a targeting tool first: they tell you which ZIPs hold the distress and which owners are most likely under real financial pressure, so limited acquisition effort lands where it converts. The Wake County scoring is reproducible from public sources alone, and DLRadar declines to estimate where the underlying record is incomplete.

Drilling in, Wake County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 27502 (34/100), 27511 (34/100), 27513 (34/100), 27518 (34/100), 27519 (34/100), 27539 (34/100). DLRadar also scores 27545, 27560, 27571, 27601, 27603, 27604, 27605, 27606 and more 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.

Under Wake County's headline composite sit distinct layers — recorded foreclosures, tax and lien delinquency, mortgage stress and bank headwind — each scored separately before they roll up, so the same total can describe very different markets.