ZIP 27978 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 27978 (Dare County, North Carolina) at a moderate 36/100 for overall property distress. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (78/100), institutional ownership (71/100), construction/permit lag (58/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (35/100). On the structural side it scores 78/100, with 11/100 of stress already active. Environmental exposure also runs high (FEMA disaster exposure (94/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (92/100), climate & FEMA risk (89/100)).

The peak-phase market in 27978 posted values that rose 3.2% over the year (phase confidence 28/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

The tenure split is 63% owner-occupied to 37% rented. Around 19% of renters are cost-burdened. Roughly 4.5% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas. About 13% have a four-year degree. The ZIP holds roughly 149 housing units. Population is roughly 221 with a median age of 58. Households earn a median $49,625 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. A median home runs $336,400 here, or 5.4 times local income. On demographic stress specifically, 27978 scores 37/100. The vacancy rate is 36.0% — elevated.

On the whole, 27978 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.