ZIP 27597 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Wake County, North Carolina's ZIP 27597 registers 33/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. Environmental exposure also runs high (FEMA disaster exposure (89/100), climate & FEMA risk (81/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (75/100)). The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (72/100), institutional ownership (64/100), construction/permit lag (58/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (24/100). Structural risk reads 72/100 against active distress of 7/100.

The peak-phase market in 27597 posted values that rose 1.2% over the year, 1.1% off the recent peak, and 12% higher over three years, at 21/100 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. Households earn a median $81,862 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure. Vacancy runs 5.5%. The tenure split is 80% owner-occupied to 20% rented. Roughly 11.9% live below the poverty line. On demographic stress specifically, 27597 scores 31/100. Population is roughly 29,003 with a median age of 39. About 25% have a four-year degree. There are about 11,631 housing units across 27597. Rent burden reaches 51% of tenant households.

On balance 27597 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.