ZIP 27843 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Edgecombe County, North Carolina's ZIP 27843 registers 26/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. Structural exposure scores 55 and live distress 7 on the 0–100 scale. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (84/100), climate & FEMA risk (67/100). The pressure is most legible in institutional ownership (56/100), structural risk (55/100), construction/permit lag (35/100). On the quiet end sit construction/permit lag (35/100) and mortgage stress (24/100).

The market reads peak — home values rose 0.8% year on year, at 32/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

The ZIP holds roughly 429 housing units. 78% of housing is owner-occupied. 976 residents call 27843 home, typically aged 43. Around 8% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The vacancy rate is 22.6% — elevated. Households earn a median $56,726 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. On demographic stress specifically, 27843 scores 27/100. 21.7% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Home values center near $103,200, an affordability ratio of 1.7× — accessible. Around 18% of renters are cost-burdened.

Taken together, 27843 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. While 27843 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.

No ZIP is too small to score: 27843 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 26/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Where the public record is thin for 27843, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.

The 26/100 figure for 27843 is a composite, not one metric: it rolls up foreclosure and pre-foreclosure activity, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, local lender headwind, and structural risk into a single reading, which is why a ZIP can look calm on price yet score high on distress. For an operator, 27843 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.