ZIP 27856 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 27856 (Nash County, North Carolina) at a moderate 33/100 for overall property distress. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — FEMA disaster exposure (94/100), climate & FEMA risk (79/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (77/100). Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (72/100), institutional ownership (68/100), construction/permit lag (53/100). mortgage stress (26/100) stay muted. Structural exposure scores 72 and live distress 8 on the 0–100 scale.

Prices here sit in a recovery phase: values rose 0.8% over the trailing year, 3.7% off the recent peak, and 16% higher over three years, at 10/100 phase confidence. Even climbing markets leave specific parcels in distress; the scoring isolates them.

There are about 7,283 housing units across 27856. Vacancy runs 13.3%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. The typical home is worth about $194,600 (2.7× income, relatively affordable). At $66,147, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. 17,001 residents call 27856 home, typically aged 39. The poverty rate is 13.9%. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 29/100. Rent burden reaches 34% of tenant households. 70% of housing is owner-occupied. Around 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher.

Taken together, 27856 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.