ZIP 28518 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Composite property distress in 28518 (Duplin County, North Carolina) lands at 32/100 — moderate on DLRadar's public-record scoring. Environmental exposure also runs high (FEMA disaster exposure (89/100), climate & FEMA risk (88/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (63/100)). The sharpest non-environmental signals are structural risk (69/100), institutional ownership (62/100), construction/permit lag (48/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (24/100). Structural risk reads 69/100 against active distress of 7/100.

The expansion-phase market in 28518 posted values that rose 5.3% over the year, and 46% higher over three years, at 29/100 phase confidence. Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.

There are about 3,618 housing units across 28518. A median home runs $159,000 here, or 3.0 times local income. The tenure split is 79% owner-occupied to 22% rented. Rent burden reaches 17% of tenant households. On demographic stress specifically, 28518 scores 27/100. Vacancy runs 13.6%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Roughly 16.4% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. About 24% have a four-year degree. Population is roughly 8,065 with a median age of 36. Households earn a median $54,500 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure.

On the whole, 28518 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.