ZIP 27840 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP 27840's composite property-distress score is 24/100 - DLRadar classes that as low for Martin County, North Carolina. What sets it apart are the readings on institutional ownership (63/100), structural risk (51/100), mortgage stress (26/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (26/100). Climate and flood risk are elevated too — FEMA disaster exposure (84/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (69/100), climate & FEMA risk (64/100). Latent structural risk is 51/100 while live distress already moving reads 8/100.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.8% over the trailing year, at 22/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

Rent burden reaches 100% of tenant households. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 41/100. Households earn a median $24,596 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Population is roughly 254 with a median age of 61. Around 11% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. A median home runs $61,800 here, or 2.5 times local income. There are about 191 housing units across 27840. Owners hold 90% of homes, renters 10%. 27.2% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Vacancy runs 31.4%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal.

On the whole, 27840 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. While 27840 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.

The 27840 read uses the identical public-record model applied coast to coast, which means its 24/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 27840 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Martin County, North Carolina. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 27840, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

Behind 27840's composite sit distinct signals (foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender and structural), each scored on its own before rolling up, so two ZIPs with the same total can describe very different situations on the ground. Practically, 27840 works as a screen — verify the reading, drill to the specific parcels driving it, and carry the deal through capital and closing on the platform.