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

For Yancey County, North Carolina, DLRadar turns county and parcel public records into a single distress score per ZIP. Bank/credit headwind for the county is 50 on a 0–100 scale, a moderate reading. The county spans 6 scored ZIP codes, averaging 23/100 composite distress. The county's ZIP scores run from 20 up to 27/100.

The peak-phase county posted home values that rose 2.8% over twelve months, a 22/100-confidence read. At this stage of the cycle, broad sweeps stop paying — the edge is parcel by parcel.

With Yancey County flat at +2.8% YoY (22/100 confidence), the discount lives in outliers so the headline market won't hand it over. A moderate 50/100 lender headwind implies both signal sets in play here.

Leading Yancey County on distress: 28754 (27/100), 28714 (24/100), 28755 (24/100), 28740 (22/100), 28777 (21/100), 28705 (20/100).

By the numbers, Yancey County's scored ZIPs report incomes around $59,610, poverty running near 13.8%, 26.6% of units sitting vacant, residents with a median age around 48.6, 77% owner-occupancy, median home values around $239,060 (below the national figure). Numbers like these drive the kind of distress to expect and the buyer pool on exit.

At 23/100 composite over 6 ZIPs, Yancey County rewards parcel-by-parcel work rather than a blanket buy. A DLRadar subscription opens every Yancey County parcel: owner, address and APN, a per-parcel score, lender exposure and exit read.

Because Yancey County, North Carolina is scored on the identical public-record model used nationwide, even a quiet county is measured on one scale — letting you weigh Yancey County against neighboring markets or the rest of North Carolina on equal footing.

Approach Yancey County by rank rather than by average — the 23/100 county figure conceals the spread, since the returns live in the top-scoring ZIPs. All of it is deterministic and auditable: Yancey County's numbers come from county recorders, the courts, FHFA and FDIC, with nothing interpolated or guessed when a source is sparse.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Yancey County are 28754 (27/100), 28714 (24/100), 28755 (24/100), 28740 (22/100), 28777 (21/100), 28705 (20/100). Each code carries its own composite built from that ZIP's foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien and lender signals, so two neighboring ZIPs can diverge sharply even inside one county.

The Yancey County score is not a single measure but a composite: foreclosure activity, mortgage and tax-lien stress, and local lender headwind each feed it, which is why understanding the components matters as much as the headline number.