ZIP 27016 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

On DLRadar's 0-100 public-record scale, ZIP 27016 in Stokes County, North Carolina comes in at 24, a low composite-distress reading. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (93/100). What sets it apart are the readings on construction/permit lag (76/100), institutional ownership (54/100), structural risk (53/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (21/100). The latent-versus-live split is 53/100 structural and 6/100 already moving.

The peak-phase market in 27016 posted values that rose 3.3% over the year (phase confidence 20/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

Vacancy runs 17.8%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. 13.8% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Population is roughly 1,858 with a median age of 49. Owners hold 87% of homes, renters 13%. Around 21% of renters are cost-burdened. The ZIP holds roughly 1,102 housing units. The typical home is worth about $177,300 (2.9× income, relatively affordable). Households earn a median $54,920 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. On demographic stress specifically, 27016 scores 27/100. About 10% have a four-year degree.

Net-net, 27016 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. While 27016 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.

No ZIP is too small to score: 27016 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 24/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 27016, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

27016's score blends several independent layers — foreclosure and mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, bank headwind and structural exposure — into one 0–100 number, so understanding the components matters as much as the headline for anyone screening the ZIP. For an operator, 27016 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.