ZIP 28508 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 28508 (Duplin County, North Carolina) at a moderate 32/100 for overall property distress. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (70/100), institutional ownership (61/100), construction/permit lag (55/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (24/100) register low. The latent-versus-live split is 70/100 structural and 7/100 already moving. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (88/100), climate & FEMA risk (87/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (62/100).

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

The vacancy rate is 5.8%. 34.3% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Educational attainment sits at 7% bachelor's-or-above. Around 27% of renters are cost-burdened. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 28/100. About 1,742 people live here, median age 45. Home values center near $48,200, an affordability ratio of 1.3× — accessible. Owners hold 69% of homes, renters 31%. Median household income is $38,417, below the U.S. median near $78,000. The ZIP holds roughly 899 housing units.

Net-net, 28508 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.