ZIP 27801 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

On DLRadar's 0-100 distress scale, ZIP 27801 in Edgecombe County, North Carolina comes in at 28, a low composite-distress reading. The latent-versus-live split is 61/100 structural and 7/100 already moving. The sharpest non-environmental signals are structural risk (61/100), institutional ownership (55/100), construction/permit lag (50/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (25/100) register low. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — FEMA disaster exposure (77/100), climate & FEMA risk (71/100).

The contraction-phase market in 27801 posted values that fell 2.2% over the year, 2.7% off the recent peak, and 17% higher over three years (phase confidence 78/100). A cooling market tends to open discount-to-value windows.

19,489 residents call 27801 home, typically aged 35. 46% of housing is owner-occupied. Home values center near $115,400, an affordability ratio of 2.6× — accessible. On demographic stress specifically, 27801 scores 37/100. The poverty rate is 28.1% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. At $41,696, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. Vacancy runs 21.3%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. There are about 9,152 housing units across 27801. Around 43% of renters are cost-burdened. Around 15% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher.

Net-net, 27801 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.

No ZIP is too small to score: 27801 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 28/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 27801, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

27801's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. For an operator, 27801 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.