ZIP 28442 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Columbus County, North Carolina's ZIP 28442 registers 28/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: flood (NFIP) exposure (88/100), FEMA disaster exposure (88/100), climate & FEMA risk (84/100). The most distinctive pressure shows up in institutional ownership (67/100), structural risk (61/100), mortgage stress (26/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (26/100) register low. Structural exposure scores 61 and live distress 8 on the 0–100 scale.

The market reads expansion — home values rose 5.5% year on year, at 30/100 phase confidence. Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

Owners hold 96% of homes, renters 4%. Home values center near $98,900, an affordability ratio of 1.9× — accessible. 16.9% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 21/100. About 1,134 people live here, median age 53. Median household income is $58,141, below the U.S. median near $78,000. There are about 818 housing units across 28442. Rent burden reaches 0% of tenant households. Vacancy runs 31.0%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Educational attainment sits at 22% bachelor's-or-above.

Net-net, 28442 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.