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 56 and live distress 7 on the 0–100 scale. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (77/100), climate & FEMA risk (67/100). The pressure is most legible in structural risk (56/100), institutional ownership (51/100), construction/permit lag (47/100). On the quiet end sit 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 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.