ZIP 27979 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Gates County, North Carolina · High Vacancy market
In Gates County, North Carolina, ZIP 27979 scores 16 of 100 for composite distress, a low level on DLRadar's public-record index. On the structural side it scores 35/100, with 6/100 of stress already active. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (84/100). The most distinctive pressure shows up in construction/permit lag (58/100), institutional ownership (46/100), structural risk (35/100). On the quiet end sit structural risk (35/100) and mortgage stress (19/100).
Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 3.4% over the trailing year, at 30/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.
The vacancy rate is 17.7% — elevated. At $54,293, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. 1,060 residents call 27979 home, typically aged 52. There are about 567 housing units across 27979. Roughly 6.8% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas. On demographic stress specifically, 27979 scores 24/100. The typical home is worth about $192,300 (3.3× income, relatively affordable). About 15% have a four-year degree. 78% of housing is owner-occupied. Rent burden reaches 0% of tenant households.
Taken together, 27979 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. While 27979 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.
No ZIP is too small to score: 27979 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 16/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Sparse data for 27979 shows as blanks, never estimates, and the score updates on every fresh public filing.
27979's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. Treat 27979 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.
Signal-by-signal read on 27979
Tax delinquency, institutional ownership, insurance pressure, NFIP/flood, construction lag, price dislocation and auction velocity — plus the 0 individual distressed properties are listed in full, with owner, address, APN, per-parcel score and exit-velocity read.
ZIP 27979 Stress Report snapshot
The live 27979 panel — distress score, market phase, housing and bank pressure — as attached to every individual property.
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The complete 27979 distress and acquisition report
The full 27979 file lists each distressed parcel with owner, address, APN, per-property score, bank exposure and exit-velocity read, and carries it straight through funding and closing. Refreshed continuously.
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