ZIP 27959 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

DLRadar grades ZIP 27959 (Dare County, North Carolina) at a moderate 35/100 for overall property distress. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — flood (NFIP) exposure (93/100), FEMA disaster exposure (93/100), climate & FEMA risk (89/100). Its standout signals are structural risk (76/100), institutional ownership (71/100), construction/permit lag (48/100). mortgage stress (35/100) stay muted. Latent structural risk is 76/100 while live distress already moving reads 11/100.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 1.9% over the trailing year, and 24% higher over three years (phase confidence 18/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

A median home runs $490,800 here, or 5.2 times local income. The ZIP holds roughly 5,285 housing units. Population is roughly 3,172 with a median age of 59. Owners hold 78% of homes, renters 22%. Around 52% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Rent burden reaches 48% of tenant households. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 37/100. Median household income is $87,619, above the U.S. median near $78,000. The vacancy rate is 68.8% — elevated. 2.6% of residents fall below the poverty threshold.

On the whole, 27959 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. 27959 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

The 27959 read uses the identical public-record model applied coast to coast, which means its 35/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 27959 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Dare County, North Carolina. Where the public record is thin for 27959, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.

The 35/100 figure for 27959 is a composite, not one metric: it rolls up foreclosure and pre-foreclosure activity, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, local lender headwind, and structural risk into a single reading, which is why a ZIP can look calm on price yet score high on distress. For a buyer, 27959 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.