ZIP 27973 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Currituck County, North Carolina's ZIP 27973 registers 22/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. The split runs 50/100 structural to 8/100 active on the ground. The pressure is most legible in institutional ownership (63/100), structural risk (50/100), construction/permit lag (48/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (28/100). It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (84/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (77/100).

The peak-phase market in 27973 posted values that rose 3.4% over the year, and 25% higher over three years (phase confidence 30/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

About 1,422 people live here, median age 43. 79% of housing is owner-occupied. There are about 464 housing units across 27973. The vacancy rate is 11.8% — elevated. Roughly 18.5% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. Rent burden reaches 55% of tenant households. On demographic stress specifically, 27973 scores 35/100. Households earn a median $85,086 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure. Home values center near $322,200, an affordability ratio of 3.7× — accessible. Around 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher.

Overall 27973 looks resilient on the surface, so the edge is isolating individual stressed parcels. 27973 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

Whether 27973 runs hot or quiet, its 22/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 27973 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Currituck County, North Carolina or nationwide. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 27973 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

27973'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. Treat 27973 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.