ZIP 27938 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Gates County, North Carolina's ZIP 27938 registers 16/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (58/100), institutional ownership (46/100), structural risk (35/100). By contrast, structural risk (35/100) and mortgage stress (19/100) register low. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (84/100). On the structural side it scores 35/100, with 6/100 of stress already active.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 3.4% over the trailing year, at 30/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

Median household income is $49,757, below the U.S. median near $78,000. 12.5% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Educational attainment sits at 7% bachelor's-or-above. The tenure split is 82% owner-occupied to 18% rented. There are about 868 housing units across 27938. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 24/100. 1,863 residents call 27938 home, typically aged 50. The vacancy rate is 11.9% — elevated. Around 9% of renters are cost-burdened. The typical home is worth about $151,200 (2.4× income, relatively affordable).

Overall, 27938 shows a mixed profile — neither uniformly stressed nor insulated — so opportunity is property-specific. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.

Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 27938's 16/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Gates County, North Carolina or any ZIP coast to coast. Where the public record is thin for 27938, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.

27938's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. For a buyer, 27938 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.