ZIP 27344 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Chatham County, North Carolina's ZIP 27344 registers 30/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. Structural risk reads 66/100 against active distress of 8/100. The most distinctive pressure shows up in institutional ownership (67/100), structural risk (66/100), construction/permit lag (41/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (25/100) register low. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: flood (NFIP) exposure (91/100), FEMA disaster exposure (88/100), climate & FEMA risk (68/100).

The market reads peak — home values rose 3.0% year on year, and 31% higher over three years, at 25/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

Owners hold 71% of homes, renters 29%. Rent burden reaches 43% of tenant households. About 18,804 people live here, median age 39. Vacancy runs 11.8%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Home values center near $184,200, an affordability ratio of 2.8× — accessible. Median household income is $62,493, below the U.S. median near $78,000. 20.3% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Educational attainment sits at 22% bachelor's-or-above. There are about 8,065 housing units across 27344. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 32/100.

Net-net, 27344 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.