ZIP 27542 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Johnston County, North Carolina · Distress market
Scored on a fixed 0-100 scale, 27542 (Johnston County, North Carolina) returns a moderate composite of 32/100. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (83/100), FEMA disaster exposure (77/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (75/100). The sharpest non-environmental signals are structural risk (72/100), construction/permit lag (65/100), institutional ownership (58/100). mortgage stress (24/100) stay muted. Structural exposure scores 72 and live distress 7 on the 0–100 scale.
The market reads peak — home values rose 1.1% year on year, and 16% higher over three years (phase confidence 13/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.
About 9,441 people live here, median age 40. The typical home is worth about $214,100 (3.2× income, relatively affordable). There are about 4,214 housing units across 27542. Vacancy runs 9.9%. Households earn a median $56,157 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. The poverty rate is 17.3% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. Rent burden reaches 53% of tenant households. About 17% have a four-year degree. Owners hold 71% of homes, renters 29%. On demographic stress specifically, 27542 scores 34/100.
On balance 27542 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. Parcel-level detail for 27542 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced.
Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 27542's 32/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Johnston County, North Carolina or any ZIP coast to coast. Where the record is thin for 27542, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.
27542's score blends several independent layers — foreclosure and mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, bank headwind and structural exposure — into one 0–100 number, so understanding the components matters as much as the headline for anyone screening the ZIP. For an operator, 27542 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.
Distress signal breakdown — ZIP 27542
Tax delinquency, institutional ownership, insurance pressure, NFIP/flood, construction lag, price dislocation and auction velocity — plus the 0 individual distressed properties are broken out by owner, address, APN, per-property score and exit read inside DLRadar.
Snapshot: 27542 by the numbers
Current distress, phase, housing and lender-pressure figures for 27542, drawn from the same report attached to each property.
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