ZIP 27953 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Composite property distress in 27953 (Dare County, North Carolina) lands at 35/100 — moderate on DLRadar's distress scoring. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — FEMA disaster exposure (95/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (93/100), climate & FEMA risk (89/100). Its standout signals are structural risk (77/100), institutional ownership (72/100), construction/permit lag (50/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (35/100). On the structural side it scores 77/100, with 11/100 of stress already active.

The peak-phase market in 27953 posted values that rose 1.9% over the year, at 18/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

Population is roughly 1,056 with a median age of 39. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 49/100. The ZIP holds roughly 605 housing units. Educational attainment sits at 16% bachelor's-or-above. Home values center near $254,700, an affordability ratio of 7.4× — stretched. Rent burden reaches 54% of tenant households. Vacancy runs 15.9%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Roughly 21.9% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. Owners hold 56% of homes, renters 44%. Households earn a median $27,489 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure.

On the whole, 27953 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. While 27953 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.

Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 27953's 35/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Dare County, North Carolina or any ZIP coast to coast. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 27953, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

The 35/100 for 27953 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. For a buyer, 27953 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.