ZIP 27520 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP code 27520 in Johnston County, North Carolina carries a composite property-distress score of 32/100 — a moderate reading on DLRadar's deterministic distress index. On the structural side it scores 71/100, with 7/100 of stress already active. What sets it apart are the readings on structural risk (71/100), construction/permit lag (61/100), institutional ownership (57/100). mortgage stress (23/100) stay muted. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (86/100), FEMA disaster exposure (77/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (70/100)).

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 0.7% over the trailing year, and 10% higher over three years (phase confidence 10/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

Home values center near $320,900, an affordability ratio of 3.3× — accessible. There are about 18,621 housing units across 27520. Population is roughly 48,662 with a median age of 38. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 27/100. Owners hold 76% of homes, renters 24%. The vacancy rate is 4.9%. Households earn a median $84,545 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure. Educational attainment sits at 29% bachelor's-or-above. Rent burden reaches 29% of tenant households. The poverty rate is 6.8% — low.

Net-net, 27520 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. No parcel file is published for 27520 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

No ZIP is too small to score: 27520 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 32/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Where the record is thin for 27520, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.

The 32/100 for 27520 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. For an operator, 27520 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.