ZIP 28079 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP 28079's composite property-distress score is 33/100 - DLRadar classes that as moderate for Union County, North Carolina. Latent structural risk is 71/100 while live distress already moving reads 7/100. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (93/100), climate & FEMA risk (90/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (69/100). Its standout signals are structural risk (71/100), institutional ownership (66/100), construction/permit lag (44/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (24/100) register low.

The peak-phase market in 28079 posted values that rose 1.0% over the year, and 13% higher over three years (phase confidence 16/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

40,820 residents call 28079 home, typically aged 38. A median home runs $395,700 here, or 3.6 times local income. The tenure split is 81% owner-occupied to 19% rented. The vacancy rate is 3.5%. Educational attainment sits at 41% bachelor's-or-above. 6.4% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 28/100. The ZIP holds roughly 14,935 housing units. Rent burden reaches 42% of tenant households. Households earn a median $97,602 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure.

On balance 28079 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. While 28079 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.

Whether 28079 runs hot or quiet, its 33/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 28079 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Union County, North Carolina or nationwide. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 28079, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

28079's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. Practically, 28079 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.