ZIP 27978 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Dare County, North Carolina · High Vacancy market
Composite property distress in 27978 (Dare County, North Carolina) lands at 35/100 — moderate on DLRadar's distress scoring. Leading the profile are structural risk (77/100), institutional ownership (72/100), construction/permit lag (50/100). mortgage stress (35/100) stay muted. Structurally it carries 77/100, against 11/100 of stress already in motion. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (95/100), flood (NFIP) 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. 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. 4.5% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. 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. The typical home is worth about $336,400 (5.4× income). On demographic stress specifically, 27978 scores 37/100. Vacancy runs 36.0%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal.
Taken together, 27978 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. While 27978 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.
Big metro or rural, 27978 runs through one identical scoring model, so its 35/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Dare County, North Carolina and the nation. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed as records update; 27978 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.
27978's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. The point of the 27978 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.
Signal-by-signal read on 27978
Tax arrears, institutional buyers, insurance load, flood exposure, stalled construction, dislocated pricing and auction velocity — together with the 0 individual distressed properties are broken out by owner, address, APN, per-property score and exit read inside DLRadar.
ZIP 27978 Stress Report snapshot
Current distress, phase, housing and lender-pressure figures for 27978, drawn from the same report attached to each property.
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More distress data near 27978
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Get the full acquisition report for 27978
The full 27978 file lists each distressed parcel with owner, address, APN, per-property score, bank exposure and exit-velocity read, and carries it straight through to owner and lender records. Refreshed continuously.
Each signal above is traceable to an open dataset · methodology