ZIP 28429 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP 28429's composite property-distress score is 36/100 - DLRadar classes that as moderate for New Hanover County, North Carolina. The sharpest non-environmental signals are structural risk (80/100), institutional ownership (71/100), construction/permit lag (55/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (27/100). Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (96/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (95/100), FEMA disaster exposure (93/100). The latent-versus-live split is 80/100 structural and 8/100 already moving.

The market reads peak — home values rose 3.5% year on year, and 25% higher over three years (phase confidence 23/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

The tenure split is 88% owner-occupied to 12% rented. The vacancy rate is 5.6%. 17.7% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Educational attainment sits at 25% bachelor's-or-above. Households earn a median $73,259 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure. Population is roughly 9,083 with a median age of 44. Around 25% of renters are cost-burdened. On demographic stress specifically, 28429 scores 26/100. There are about 4,269 housing units across 28429. The typical home is worth about $239,200 (3.2× income, relatively affordable).

Overall, 28429 shows a mixed profile — neither uniformly stressed nor insulated — so opportunity is property-specific. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.

The number is not local guesswork: 28429's 36/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 28429 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

Behind 28429's composite sit distinct signals (foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender and structural), each scored on its own before rolling up, so two ZIPs with the same total can describe very different situations on the ground. Practically, 28429 works as a screen — verify the reading, drill to the specific parcels driving it, and carry the deal through capital and closing on the platform.