ZIP 28208 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Mecklenburg County, North Carolina's ZIP 28208 registers 40/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. Structural exposure scores 89 and live distress 8 on the 0–100 scale. The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (89/100), construction/permit lag (87/100), institutional ownership (72/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (27/100) register low. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (97/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (96/100), FEMA disaster exposure (94/100).

The market reads peak — home values rose 3.2% year on year, and 17% higher over three years, at 21/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

Home values center near $236,300, an affordability ratio of 3.9× — accessible. Owners hold 40% of homes, renters 60%. About 38,948 people live here, median age 34. Median household income is $51,339, below the U.S. median near $78,000. 20.1% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 37/100. There are about 18,539 housing units across 28208. Rent burden reaches 45% of tenant households. Vacancy runs 10.0%. Educational attainment sits at 26% bachelor's-or-above.

Net-net, 28208 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.