ZIP 27518 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 27518 (Wake County, North Carolina) at a moderate 36/100 for overall property distress. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (78/100), institutional ownership (66/100), construction/permit lag (60/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (25/100) register low. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (97/100), FEMA disaster exposure (88/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (82/100). The latent-versus-live split is 78/100 structural and 7/100 already moving.

The market reads peak — home values rose 1.2% year on year, and 9% higher over three years (phase confidence 22/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

Median household income is $121,242, above the U.S. median near $78,000. Educational attainment sits at 72% bachelor's-or-above. Around 32% of renters are cost-burdened. The ZIP holds roughly 9,489 housing units. 4.8% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 28/100. The vacancy rate is 10.9%. Owners hold 66% of homes, renters 34%. About 18,995 people live here, median age 47. Home values center near $632,200, an affordability ratio of 4.9×.

Net-net, 27518 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.