ZIP 27920 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

In Dare County, North Carolina, ZIP 27920 scores 35 of 100 for composite distress, a moderate level on DLRadar's public-record index. Structural exposure scores 76 and live distress 0 on the 0–100 scale. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — flood (NFIP) exposure (93/100), FEMA disaster exposure (93/100), climate & FEMA risk (89/100). The pressure is most legible in structural risk (76/100), institutional ownership (71/100), construction/permit lag (48/100).

The peak-phase market in 27920 posted values that rose 1.9% over the year, and 48% higher over three years (phase confidence 18/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

Population is roughly 1,451 with a median age of 50. The typical home is worth about $409,900 (5.8× income). Vacancy runs 36.0%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. About 26% have a four-year degree. On demographic stress specifically, 27920 scores 45/100. Rent burden reaches 81% of tenant households. The tenure split is 76% owner-occupied to 24% rented. The poverty rate is 7.8%. There are about 972 housing units across 27920. At $67,054, median income runs below typical U.S. levels.

Net-net, 27920 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. No parcel file is published for 27920 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 27920's 35/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Dare County, North Carolina or any ZIP coast to coast. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 27920 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

27920'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 27920 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.