ZIP 27609 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

In Wake County, North Carolina, ZIP 27609 scores 34 of 100 for composite distress, a moderate level on DLRadar's public-record index. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (97/100), FEMA disaster exposure (84/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (82/100). Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (75/100), institutional ownership (64/100), construction/permit lag (51/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (25/100). The latent-versus-live split is 75/100 structural and 7/100 already moving.

The peak-phase market in 27609 posted values that rose 0.7% over the year, and 16% higher over three years (phase confidence 10/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

35,548 residents call 27609 home, typically aged 38. Households earn a median $81,538 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure. A median home runs $471,200 here, or 5.4 times local income. Educational attainment sits at 61% bachelor's-or-above. Owners hold 51% of homes, renters 49%. There are about 20,140 housing units across 27609. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 34/100. The poverty rate is 6.5% — low. Vacancy runs 13.6%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Rent burden reaches 44% of tenant households.

Taken together, 27609 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. There is no property file for 27609 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable public records.

The 27609 read uses the identical public-record model applied coast to coast, which means its 34/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 27609 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Wake County, North Carolina. Where the public record is thin for 27609, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.

The 34/100 for 27609 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. Treat 27609 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.