ZIP 27897 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

DLRadar grades ZIP 27897 (Northampton County, North Carolina) at a low 23/100 for overall property distress. Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (80/100), institutional ownership (53/100), structural risk (51/100). mortgage stress (25/100) stay muted. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (77/100). On the structural side it scores 51/100, with 8/100 of stress already active.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.1% over the trailing year, at 19/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

Around 33% of renters are cost-burdened. Population is roughly 1,397 with a median age of 51. Educational attainment sits at 10% bachelor's-or-above. A median home runs $109,200 here, or 1.5 times local income. Households earn a median $50,863 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Owners hold 47% of homes, renters 53%. The ZIP holds roughly 956 housing units. On demographic stress specifically, 27897 scores 33/100. 23.6% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Vacancy runs 40.4%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal.

Taken together, 27897 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. There is no property file for 27897 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable records.

Big metro or rural, 27897 runs through one identical scoring model, so its 23/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Northampton County, North Carolina and the nation. Sparse data for 27897 shows as blanks, never estimates, and the score updates on every fresh public filing.

Each component behind 27897 - foreclosure, mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, lender pullback, structural exposure - is graded on its own before the 23/100 roll-up. For a buyer, 27897 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.