ZIP 28422 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

DLRadar grades ZIP 28422 (Brunswick County, North Carolina) at a moderate 36/100 for overall property distress. Structural risk reads 79/100 against active distress of 9/100. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (79/100), institutional ownership (72/100), construction/permit lag (49/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (32/100) register low. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: flood (NFIP) exposure (96/100), climate & FEMA risk (95/100), FEMA disaster exposure (95/100).

The market reads peak — home values rose 3.5% year on year, and 9% higher over three years (phase confidence 23/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

About 8,590 people live here, median age 57. The typical home is worth about $295,200 (4.3× income). At $67,883, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. The vacancy rate is 21.5% — elevated. On demographic stress specifically, 28422 scores 36/100. The poverty rate is 16.9% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. 87% of housing is owner-occupied. Educational attainment sits at 28% bachelor's-or-above. The ZIP holds roughly 5,111 housing units. Around 53% of renters are cost-burdened.

On the whole, 28422 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.

The 28422 read uses the identical public-record model applied coast to coast, which means its 36/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 28422 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Brunswick County, North Carolina. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 28422, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

28422'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 28422 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.