ZIP 27617 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

DLRadar grades ZIP 27617 (Wake County, North Carolina) at a moderate 34/100 for overall property distress. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (96/100), FEMA disaster exposure (84/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (82/100). Latent structural risk is 75/100 while live distress already moving reads 7/100. Leading the profile are structural risk (75/100), institutional ownership (64/100), construction/permit lag (51/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (25/100) register low.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 0.7% over the trailing year, and 37% higher over three years (phase confidence 10/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

Home values center near $489,600, an affordability ratio of 4.1×. Roughly 4.2% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas. At $109,991, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. About 64% have a four-year degree. 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. 45% of housing is owner-occupied.

Overall, 27617 shows a mixed profile — neither uniformly stressed nor insulated — so opportunity is property-specific. There is no property file for 27617 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable public records.

The 27617 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 27617 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Wake County, North Carolina. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 27617 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

27617'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 a buyer, 27617 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.