ZIP 27968 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Composite property distress in 27968 (Dare County, North Carolina) lands at 35/100 — moderate on DLRadar's public-record scoring. Structurally it carries 76/100, against 0/100 of stress already in motion. The pressure is most legible in structural risk (76/100), institutional ownership (71/100), construction/permit lag (48/100). Environmental exposure also runs high (flood (NFIP) exposure (93/100), FEMA disaster exposure (93/100), climate & FEMA risk (89/100)).

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 1.9% over the trailing year, at 18/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

Households earn a median $34,066 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Around 77% of renters are cost-burdened. 4.9% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Vacancy runs 60.0%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Owners hold 66% of homes, renters 34%. The ZIP holds roughly 718 housing units. About 69% have a four-year degree. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 55/100. Population is roughly 306 with a median age of 52.

Taken together, 27968 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. No parcel file is published for 27968 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

The 27968 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 27968 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Dare County, North Carolina. 27968 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.

27968'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. For an operator, 27968 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.