ZIP 28202 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Composite property distress in 28202 (Mecklenburg County, North Carolina) lands at 41/100 — moderate on DLRadar's public-record scoring. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (97/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (96/100), FEMA disaster exposure (93/100). What sets it apart are the readings on construction/permit lag (100/100), structural risk (92/100), institutional ownership (71/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (27/100) register low. On the structural side it scores 92/100, with 8/100 of stress already active.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 1.0% over the trailing year, and 40% higher over three years (phase confidence 16/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

16,855 residents call 28202 home, typically aged 30. Households earn a median $101,711 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. Vacancy runs 18.5%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. The ZIP holds roughly 12,177 housing units. Roughly 12.4% live below the poverty line. Around 29% of renters are cost-burdened. A median home runs $443,500 here, or 4.2 times local income. Educational attainment sits at 64% bachelor's-or-above. Owners hold 27% of homes, renters 73%. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 32/100.

Taken together, 28202 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.

Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 28202's 41/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina or any ZIP coast to coast. Sparse data for 28202 shows as blanks, never estimates, and the score updates on every fresh public filing.

28202's score blends several independent layers — foreclosure and mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, bank headwind and structural exposure — into one 0–100 number, so understanding the components matters as much as the headline for anyone screening the ZIP. For an operator, 28202 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.