ZIP 27973 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 27973 (Currituck County, North Carolina) at a low 24/100 for overall property distress. Structural exposure scores 56 and live distress 8 on the 0–100 scale. Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (67/100), institutional ownership (65/100), structural risk (56/100). mortgage stress (28/100) stay muted. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — FEMA disaster exposure (88/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (77/100).

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 4.2% over the trailing year, and 25% higher over three years, at 38/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

1,422 residents call 27973 home, typically aged 43. 79% of housing is owner-occupied. There are about 464 housing units across 27973. Vacancy runs 11.8%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. The poverty rate is 18.5% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. Rent burden reaches 55% of tenant households. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 35/100. At $85,086, median income runs near typical U.S. levels. The typical home is worth about $322,200 (3.7× income, relatively affordable). Around 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher.

On balance, 27973 reads as a higher-equity, stable market where distress is selective and worth pinpointing parcel by parcel. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.