ZIP 28024 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Rutherford County, North Carolina's ZIP 28024 registers 30/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: flood (NFIP) exposure (97/100), FEMA disaster exposure (77/100), climate & FEMA risk (69/100). What sets it apart are the readings on structural risk (67/100), institutional ownership (63/100), construction/permit lag (46/100). Structural exposure scores 67 and live distress 0 on the 0–100 scale.

The market reads peak — home values rose 1.9% year on year (phase confidence 18/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

Educational attainment sits at 52% bachelor's-or-above. The tenure split is 100% owner-occupied to 0% rented. Vacancy runs 0.0%. The ZIP holds roughly 16 housing units. 100.0% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. 31 residents call 28024 home. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 70/100.

Net-net, 28024 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.

No ZIP is too small to score: 28024 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 30/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 28024 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

The 30/100 for 28024 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. Practically, 28024 works as a screen — verify the reading, drill to the specific parcels driving it, and carry the deal through capital and closing on the platform.