ZIP 28480 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

In New Hanover County, North Carolina, ZIP 28480 scores 36 of 100 for composite distress, a moderate level on DLRadar's public-record index. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (96/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (95/100), FEMA disaster exposure (93/100). What sets it apart are the readings on structural risk (80/100), institutional ownership (71/100), construction/permit lag (55/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (27/100) register low. The split runs 80/100 structural to 8/100 active on the ground.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 3.5% over the trailing year, and 32% higher over three years, at 23/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

Population is roughly 2,727 with a median age of 56. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 34/100. There are about 2,940 housing units across 28480. Rent burden reaches 24% of tenant households. Owners hold 81% of homes, renters 19%. The poverty rate is 3.5% — low. A median home runs $1,131,800 here, or 6.3 times local income. Around 72% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Vacancy runs 56.0%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Households earn a median $165,682 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure.

Taken together, 28480 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. Parcel-level detail for 28480 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced to public records.

Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 28480's 36/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in New Hanover County, North Carolina or any ZIP coast to coast. Where the public record is thin for 28480, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.

Each component behind 28480 - foreclosure, mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, lender pullback, structural exposure - is graded on its own before the 36/100 roll-up. For an operator, 28480 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.