ZIP 28444 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP code 28444 in Sampson County, North Carolina carries a composite property-distress score of 34/100 — a moderate reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (85/100), FEMA disaster exposure (84/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (76/100). Leading the profile are structural risk (74/100), construction/permit lag (65/100), institutional ownership (63/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (26/100). On the structural side it scores 74/100, with 8/100 of stress already active.

The peak-phase market in 28444 posted values that rose 2.8% over the year, at 22/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

The vacancy rate is 25.8% — elevated. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 28/100. There are about 1,182 housing units across 28444. Rent burden reaches 8% of tenant households. Population is roughly 2,756 with a median age of 40. Roughly 18.0% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. 72% of housing is owner-occupied. Around 13% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. A median home runs $206,700 here. At $58,051, median income runs below typical U.S. levels.

Net-net, 28444 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. 28444 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

The 28444 read uses the identical public-record model applied coast to coast, which means its 34/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 28444 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Sampson County, North Carolina. 28444 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.

28444'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. In workflow terms, 28444 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.