ZIP 27842 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Northampton County, North Carolina · High Vacancy market
ZIP 27842's composite property-distress score is 21/100 - DLRadar classes that as low for Northampton County, North Carolina. Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (59/100), institutional ownership (58/100), structural risk (46/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (26/100). It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (84/100). On the structural side it scores 46/100, with 8/100 of stress already active.
The market reads peak — home values rose 2.0% year on year, and 33% higher over three years (phase confidence 18/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.
About 39% have a four-year degree. On demographic stress specifically, 27842 scores 34/100. Roughly 22.7% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. Home values center near $490,600, an affordability ratio of 5.5×. Rent burden reaches 0% of tenant households. There are about 1,945 housing units across 27842. At $87,500, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. The vacancy rate is 64.5% — elevated. 94% of housing is owner-occupied. About 1,439 people live here, median age 63.
Taken together, 27842 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. Parcel-level detail for 27842 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced to public records.
No ZIP is too small to score: 27842 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 21/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 27842 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.
27842'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. The point of the 27842 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.
Distress signal breakdown — ZIP 27842
Unpaid tax, corporate ownership share, insurance cost pressure, NFIP flood risk, construction slowdown, price gaps and auction turnover — plus the 0 individual distressed properties carry owner, address, APN, a parcel-level score and an exit read in the full DLRadar file.
27842 at a glance
Current distress, phase, housing and lender-pressure figures for 27842, drawn from the same report attached to each property.
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