ZIP 27252 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 27252 (Chatham County, North Carolina) at a moderate 30/100 for overall property distress. Structural risk reads 66/100 against active distress of 8/100. Environmental exposure also runs high (flood (NFIP) exposure (92/100), FEMA disaster exposure (88/100), climate & FEMA risk (67/100)). Property-level stress concentrates in institutional ownership (68/100), structural risk (66/100), construction/permit lag (38/100). On the quiet end sit construction/permit lag (38/100) and mortgage stress (25/100).

The peak-phase market in 27252 posted values that rose 3.0% over the year, and 15% higher over three years, at 25/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

Population is roughly 1,066 with a median age of 50. On demographic stress specifically, 27252 scores 29/100. A median home runs $171,600 here, or 4.4 times local income. Vacancy runs 11.7%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. The tenure split is 89% owner-occupied to 11% rented. Rent burden reaches 22% of tenant households. About 7% have a four-year degree. Roughly 5.7% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas. There are about 734 housing units across 27252. Households earn a median $37,934 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure.

On balance 27252 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.