ZIP 28216 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP 28216's composite property-distress score is 41/100 - DLRadar classes that as moderate for Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. 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. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (97/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (96/100), FEMA disaster exposure (93/100)). 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 13% higher over three years, at 16/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

Households earn a median $64,977 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Around 43% of renters are cost-burdened. Roughly 11.4% live below the poverty line. A median home runs $287,000 here, or 3.8 times local income. Owners hold 51% of homes, renters 49%. The ZIP holds roughly 25,442 housing units. Educational attainment sits at 35% bachelor's-or-above. On demographic stress specifically, 28216 scores 33/100. About 54,052 people live here, median age 36. Vacancy runs 7.7%.

Net-net, 28216 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. While 28216 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.

Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 28216's 41/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina or any ZIP coast to coast. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 28216 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

28216'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. Treat 28216 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.