ZIP 27597 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Scored on a fixed 0-100 scale, 27597 (Wake County, North Carolina) returns a moderate composite of 31/100. Environmental exposure also runs high (FEMA disaster exposure (87/100), climate & FEMA risk (81/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (73/100)). Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (68/100), institutional ownership (64/100), construction/permit lag (46/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (24/100). Structural risk reads 68/100 against active distress of 7/100.

The peak-phase market in 27597 posted values that rose 0.5% over the year, and 12% higher over three years, at 13/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

A median home runs $312,500 here, or 3.3 times local income. At $81,862, median income runs near typical U.S. levels. The vacancy rate is 5.5%. Owners hold 80% of homes, renters 20%. The poverty rate is 11.9%. On demographic stress specifically, 27597 scores 31/100. About 29,003 people live here, median age 39. Educational attainment sits at 25% bachelor's-or-above. There are about 11,631 housing units across 27597. Around 51% of renters are cost-burdened.

On balance 27597 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. While 27597 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.

No ZIP is too small to score: 27597 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 31/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Where the record is thin for 27597, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.

The 31/100 figure for 27597 is a composite, not one metric: it rolls up foreclosure and pre-foreclosure activity, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, local lender headwind, and structural risk into a single reading, which is why a ZIP can look calm on price yet score high on distress. For an operator, 27597 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.