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

DLRadar tracks property distress across Wilson County, North Carolina using verifiable public-record signals alone. The county spans 17 scored ZIP codes, averaging 32/100 composite distress. Bank/credit headwind for the county is 48 on a 0–100 scale, a moderate reading. Individual Wilson County ZIPs score between 25 and 34 on the 0–100 composite.

The county market is in a peak phase: home prices rose 1.9% over the past year (phase confidence 18/100). With pricing topped out, blanket buying underperforms so screen ZIP by ZIP.

With Wilson County flat at +1.9% YoY (18/100 confidence), opportunity is parcel-specific so the headline market won't hand it over. A moderate 48/100 lender headwind points to a blend the ZIP scores sort out.

Highest scores land in 27813 (34/100), 27822 (34/100), 27851 (34/100), 27873 (34/100), 27880 (34/100), 27893 (34/100); each opens to a full parcel breakdown. The breakdown continues through 27896, 27803, 27807, 27878, 27557, 27830, 27542, 27829, 27883, 27852 and more.

Demographically, Wilson County's scored ZIPs report vacancy near 13.6%, 70% of homes owner-occupied, typical home values near $157,482, a median household income near $55,444 (below the US norm), a median age of 43, 17.8% of households below the poverty line. Read together, they signal how much distress reaches the market and how fast it moves.

Net of it all, 32/100 over 17 ZIPs means the opportunity hides below the average rather than a blanket buy. Subscribers get each Wilson County parcel's owner and contact detail, APN, a per-parcel score, lender exposure and exit read.

No county is too small to score: Wilson County, North Carolina runs through the same foreclosure, tax, lien and bank-stress model as every major metro, so Wilson County's numbers mean exactly what they mean anywhere else in North Carolina.

In Wilson 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. All of it is deterministic and auditable: Wilson County's numbers come from county recorders, the courts, FHFA and FDIC, with nothing interpolated or guessed when a source is sparse.

Drilling in, Wilson County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 27813 (34/100), 27822 (34/100), 27851 (34/100), 27873 (34/100), 27880 (34/100), 27893 (34/100). DLRadar also scores 27896, 27803, 27807, 27878, 27557, 27830, 27542, 27829 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.

DLRadar's composite for Wilson 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.