ZIP 27104 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

DLRadar grades ZIP 27104 (Forsyth County, North Carolina) at a moderate 35/100 for overall property distress. The latent-versus-live split is 77/100 structural and 8/100 already moving. Its heaviest discrete signals: 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).

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 3.3% over the trailing year, and 18% higher over three years, at 20/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

60% of housing is owner-occupied. Roughly 7.2% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas. Home values center near $359,300, an affordability ratio of 4.3×. Educational attainment sits at 58% bachelor's-or-above. About 31,184 people live here, median age 44. Around 36% of renters are cost-burdened. The vacancy rate is 7.3%. The ZIP holds roughly 15,474 housing units. On demographic stress specifically, 27104 scores 29/100. Households earn a median $77,056 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure.

Net-net, 27104 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.

The 27104 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 27104 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; 27104 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

Behind 27104's composite sit distinct signals (foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender and structural), each scored on its own before rolling up, so two ZIPs with the same total can describe very different situations on the ground. In workflow terms, 27104 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.