ZIP 27617 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 27617 (Wake County, North Carolina) at a moderate 35/100 for overall property distress. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (96/100), FEMA disaster exposure (88/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (82/100). The latent-versus-live split is 78/100 structural and 7/100 already moving. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (78/100), institutional ownership (66/100), construction/permit lag (60/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (25/100) register low.

The market reads peak — home values rose 1.2% year on year, and 37% higher over three years (phase confidence 22/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

Home values center near $489,600, an affordability ratio of 4.1×. 4.2% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Median household income is $109,991, above the U.S. median near $78,000. Educational attainment sits at 64% bachelor's-or-above. The vacancy rate is 7.4%. The ZIP holds roughly 10,995 housing units. Around 25% of renters are cost-burdened. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 27/100. About 20,012 people live here, median age 37. Owners hold 45% of homes, renters 55%.

Net-net, 27617 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.