ZIP 27604 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP code 27604 in Wake County, North Carolina carries a composite property-distress score of 34/100 — a moderate reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (75/100), institutional ownership (64/100), construction/permit lag (51/100). mortgage stress (25/100) stay muted. Structural exposure scores 75 and live distress 7 on the 0–100 scale. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (97/100), FEMA disaster exposure (84/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (82/100).

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 0.7% over the trailing year, and 13% higher over three years, at 10/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

Vacancy runs 10.8%. Population is roughly 44,094 with a median age of 37. The poverty rate is 11.5%. The ZIP holds roughly 21,386 housing units. Median household income is $72,793, near the U.S. median near $78,000. The tenure split is 55% owner-occupied to 45% rented. Rent burden reaches 41% of tenant households. On demographic stress specifically, 27604 scores 33/100. Around 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Home values center near $349,200, an affordability ratio of 4.0×.

On balance 27604 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. 27604 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

Big metro or rural, 27604 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 34/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Wake County, North Carolina and the nation. Sparse data for 27604 shows as blanks, never estimates, and the score updates on every fresh public filing.

27604'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, 27604 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.