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

Washington 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 78 on a 0–100 scale, a elevated reading. There are 4 scored ZIPs in the county (mean composite 20/100). ZIP-level distress ranges from 29/100 at the top down to 17/100.

In its peak phase, Washington County home prices rose 2.8% across the last year (phase confidence 22/100). With pricing topped out, the average masks the outliers leaving the wins in individual deals.

At +2.8% YoY and 22/100 confidence, opportunity is parcel-specific so the headline market won't hand it over. Its 78/100 lender headwind favors patient capital: expect more lender-driven inventory soon.

Top distress by ZIP runs 27860 (29/100), 27962 (18/100), 27928 (17/100), 27970 (17/100), listed with every scored ZIP below.

By the numbers, Washington County's scored ZIPs come in at vacancy near 23.2%, an owner-occupied share of 72%, a 19.3% poverty rate, a median age of 43.4, incomes around $44,053, median home values around $133,875 (below the national figure). These fundamentals frame how much distress reaches the market and how fast it moves.

All in at 20/100 over 4 ZIPs, Washington County is a screen-by-ZIP market where the ZIP scores point. A DLRadar subscription opens every Washington County parcel: owner, address and APN, a parcel-level score plus bank exposure and liquidity read.

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

The point of scoring Washington County, North Carolina is to narrow it — the high-composite ZIPs carry the distress, and everything below them rarely repays the outreach cost. All of it is deterministic and auditable: Washington County's numbers come from county recorders, the courts, FHFA and FDIC, with nothing interpolated or guessed when a source is sparse.

The ZIP breakdown for Washington County leads with 27860 (29/100), 27962 (18/100), 27928 (17/100), 27970 (17/100). 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.

Under Washington 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.