ZIP 27545 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Wake County, North Carolina's ZIP 27545 registers 34/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (97/100), FEMA disaster exposure (84/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (82/100)). Latent structural risk is 75/100 while live distress already moving reads 7/100. Its heaviest discrete signals: structural risk (75/100), institutional ownership (64/100), construction/permit lag (51/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (25/100).

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 0.7% over the trailing year, and 8% higher over three years (phase confidence 10/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

Median household income is $85,400, near the U.S. median near $78,000. Owners hold 70% of homes, renters 30%. About 36% have a four-year degree. Rent burden reaches 35% of tenant households. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 29/100. Home values center near $346,900, an affordability ratio of 3.5× — accessible. Population is roughly 33,750 with a median age of 35. The vacancy rate is 4.0%. Roughly 10.6% live below the poverty line. The ZIP holds roughly 12,652 housing units.

Net-net, 27545 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. 27545 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

Whether 27545 runs hot or quiet, its 34/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 27545 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Wake County, North Carolina or nationwide. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 27545 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

Behind 27545's composite sit distinct signals (foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender and structural), each scored on its own before rolling up, so two ZIPs with the same total can describe very different situations on the ground. Practically, 27545 works as a screen — verify the reading, drill to the specific parcels driving it, and carry the deal through capital and closing on the platform.