ZIP 27040 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

In Forsyth County, North Carolina, ZIP 27040 scores 35 of 100 for composite distress, a moderate level on DLRadar's public-record index. What sets it apart are the readings on structural risk (77/100), institutional ownership (67/100), construction/permit lag (59/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (26/100) register low. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (93/100), climate & FEMA risk (91/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (78/100). On the structural side it scores 77/100, with 8/100 of stress already active.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 3.3% over the trailing year, and 19% higher over three years, at 20/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

Vacancy runs 11.3%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. The poverty rate is 8.4%. Rent burden reaches 19% of tenant households. Population is roughly 12,574 with a median age of 43. The ZIP holds roughly 5,360 housing units. A median home runs $278,000 here, or 2.8 times local income. Median household income is $92,365, above the U.S. median near $78,000. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 21/100. Around 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The tenure split is 92% owner-occupied to 8% rented.

Net-net, 27040 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. Parcel-level detail for 27040 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced to public records.

The 27040 read uses the identical public-record model applied coast to coast, which means its 35/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 27040 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Forsyth County, North Carolina. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 27040 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

The 35/100 figure for 27040 is a composite, not one metric: it rolls up foreclosure and pre-foreclosure activity, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, local lender headwind, and structural risk into a single reading, which is why a ZIP can look calm on price yet score high on distress. The point of the 27040 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.