ZIP 27516 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

On DLRadar's 0-100 public-record scale, ZIP 27516 in Orange County, North Carolina comes in at 28, a low composite-distress reading. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — flood (NFIP) exposure (97/100), FEMA disaster exposure (84/100), climate & FEMA risk (79/100). Latent structural risk is 60/100 while live distress already moving reads 8/100. Property-level stress concentrates in institutional ownership (67/100), structural risk (60/100), mortgage stress (26/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (26/100).

The market reads peak — home values rose 1.3% year on year, and 20% higher over three years, at 12/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

The tenure split is 72% owner-occupied to 28% rented. Around 54% of renters are cost-burdened. Vacancy runs 7.9%. About 72% have a four-year degree. The poverty rate is 15.4%. 46,372 residents call 27516 home, typically aged 36. Median household income is $100,788, above the U.S. median near $78,000. On demographic stress specifically, 27516 scores 33/100. The ZIP holds roughly 18,951 housing units. The typical home is worth about $567,200 (5.0× income).

Net-net, 27516 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. 27516 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

Whether 27516 runs hot or quiet, its 28/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 27516 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Orange County, North Carolina or nationwide. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 27516, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

The 28/100 figure for 27516 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. Treat 27516 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.