ZIP 27540 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 27540 (Wake County, North Carolina) at a moderate 34/100 for overall property distress. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (91/100), FEMA disaster exposure (88/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (80/100)). Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (76/100), institutional ownership (65/100), construction/permit lag (58/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (24/100). Structural exposure scores 76 and live distress 7 on the 0–100 scale.

The peak-phase market in 27540 posted values that rose 1.7% over the year, and 11% higher over three years, at 23/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

A median home runs $522,500 here, or 3.8 times local income. Roughly 4.2% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas. Vacancy runs 6.0%. The tenure split is 85% owner-occupied to 16% rented. About 65% have a four-year degree. Households earn a median $125,681 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. Population is roughly 45,993 with a median age of 36. On demographic stress specifically, 27540 scores 24/100. There are about 16,923 housing units across 27540. Rent burden reaches 35% of tenant households.

On balance 27540 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.