ZIP 27344 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

On DLRadar's 0-100 public-record scale, ZIP 27344 in Chatham County, North Carolina comes in at 31, a moderate composite-distress reading. The split runs 69/100 structural to 8/100 active on the ground. What sets it apart are the readings on structural risk (69/100), institutional ownership (66/100), construction/permit lag (52/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (25/100). Environmental exposure also runs high (flood (NFIP) exposure (91/100), FEMA disaster exposure (84/100), climate & FEMA risk (68/100)).

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 1.5% over the trailing year, and 31% higher over three years (phase confidence 13/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

Owners hold 71% of homes, renters 29%. Around 43% of renters are cost-burdened. 18,804 residents call 27344 home, typically aged 39. The vacancy rate is 11.8% — elevated. Home values center near $184,200, an affordability ratio of 2.8× — accessible. At $62,493, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. 20.3% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Around 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The ZIP holds roughly 8,065 housing units. On demographic stress specifically, 27344 scores 32/100.

Net-net, 27344 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Parcel-level detail for 27344 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced to public records.

Big metro or rural, 27344 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 31/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Chatham County, North Carolina and the nation. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 27344 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

27344's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. For a buyer, 27344 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.