ZIP 28456 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Columbus County, North Carolina · High Vacancy market
On DLRadar's 0-100 distress scale, ZIP 28456 in Columbus County, North Carolina comes in at 32, a moderate composite-distress reading. The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (71/100), institutional ownership (62/100), construction/permit lag (49/100). mortgage stress (28/100) stay muted. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: flood (NFIP) exposure (88/100), climate & FEMA risk (84/100), FEMA disaster exposure (79/100). The latent-versus-live split is 71/100 structural and 8/100 already moving.
The peak-phase market in 28456 posted values that rose 2.9% over the year, and 40% higher over three years (phase confidence 22/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.
Around 13% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Around 42% of renters are cost-burdened. Vacancy runs 19.3%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Population is roughly 3,565 with a median age of 49. Median household income is $48,164, below the U.S. median near $78,000. The ZIP holds roughly 1,832 housing units. The poverty rate is 13.4%. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 31/100. The typical home is worth about $167,900 (3.2× income, relatively affordable). Owners hold 84% of homes, renters 16%.
Net-net, 28456 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. While 28456 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.
No ZIP is too small to score: 28456 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 32/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 28456, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.
Each component behind 28456 - foreclosure, mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, lender pullback, structural exposure - is graded on its own before the 32/100 roll-up. The point of the 28456 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.
Distress signal breakdown — ZIP 28456
Tax arrears, institutional buyers, insurance load, flood exposure, stalled construction, dislocated pricing and auction velocity — together with the 0 individual distressed properties carry owner, address, APN, a parcel-level score and an exit read in the full DLRadar file.
ZIP 28456 Stress Report snapshot
Real-time distress, cycle phase, housing and bank-stress readings for 28456, the same set carried on every parcel.
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