ZIP 28428 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
New Hanover County, North Carolina · High Vacancy market
In New Hanover County, North Carolina, ZIP 28428 scores 36 of 100 for composite distress, a moderate level on DLRadar's public-record index. Latent structural risk is 80/100 while live distress already moving reads 8/100. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (96/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (95/100), FEMA disaster exposure (93/100)). Its heaviest discrete signals: structural risk (80/100), institutional ownership (71/100), construction/permit lag (55/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (27/100) register low.
The market reads peak — home values rose 3.5% year on year, and 21% higher over three years, at 23/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.
About 7,034 people live here, median age 52. 79% of housing is owner-occupied. Home values center near $572,700, an affordability ratio of 5.6×. Vacancy runs 50.4%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Educational attainment sits at 48% bachelor's-or-above. On demographic stress specifically, 28428 scores 36/100. There are about 6,596 housing units across 28428. Rent burden reaches 30% of tenant households. Households earn a median $87,670 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. Roughly 8.4% live below the poverty line.
On the whole, 28428 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. Parcel-level detail for 28428 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced to public records.
Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 28428's 36/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in New Hanover County, North Carolina or any ZIP coast to coast. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 28428 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.
28428's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. The point of the 28428 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.
Signal-by-signal read on 28428
Tax-delinquent parcels, institutional ownership, insurance strain, flood risk, construction lag, price dislocation and auction speed — plus the 0 individual distressed properties carry owner, address, APN, a parcel-level score and an exit read in the full DLRadar file.
28428 at a glance
The live 28428 panel — distress score, market phase, housing and bank pressure — as attached to every individual property.
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