ZIP 28217 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Mecklenburg County, North Carolina's ZIP 28217 registers 41/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. Structural risk reads 92/100 against active distress of 8/100. Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (100/100), structural risk (92/100), institutional ownership (71/100). 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 (93/100).

The market reads peak — home values rose 1.0% year on year, and 19% higher over three years, at 16/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

31,909 residents call 28217 home, typically aged 32. 31% of housing is owner-occupied. The typical home is worth about $263,300 (4.0× income, relatively affordable). The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 36/100. At $60,397, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. Vacancy runs 6.8%. The ZIP holds roughly 14,330 housing units. 20.5% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Around 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Rent burden reaches 37% of tenant households.

Net-net, 28217 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. No parcel file is published for 28217 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

Whether 28217 runs hot or quiet, its 41/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 28217 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina or nationwide. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 28217 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

The 41/100 for 28217 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. In workflow terms, 28217 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.