ZIP 27502 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

In Wake County, North Carolina, ZIP 27502 scores 34 of 100 for composite distress, a moderate level on DLRadar's public-record index. Latent structural risk is 74/100 while live distress already moving reads 7/100. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (91/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (84/100), FEMA disaster exposure (84/100). The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (74/100), institutional ownership (64/100), construction/permit lag (51/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (25/100).

The market reads peak — home values rose 0.8% year on year, and 22% higher over three years (phase confidence 10/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

About 47,436 people live here, median age 37. Vacancy runs 4.6%. At $137,088, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. Around 66% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The typical home is worth about $550,900 (3.6× income, relatively affordable). On demographic stress specifically, 27502 scores 23/100. Owners hold 81% of homes, renters 19%. There are about 18,190 housing units across 27502. The poverty rate is 2.8% — low. Rent burden reaches 34% of tenant households.

On balance 27502 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. There is no property file for 27502 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable public records.

No ZIP is too small to score: 27502 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 34/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 27502 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

The 34/100 figure for 27502 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 27502 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.