ZIP 28518 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Duplin County, North Carolina's ZIP 28518 registers 28/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (88/100), FEMA disaster exposure (85/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (62/100)). Its standout signals are institutional ownership (60/100), structural risk (59/100), mortgage stress (24/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (24/100) and construction/permit lag (13/100) register low. Structurally it carries 59/100, against 7/100 of stress already in motion.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.9% over the trailing year, and 46% higher over three years, at 24/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

The ZIP holds roughly 3,618 housing units. Home values center near $159,000, an affordability ratio of 3.0× — accessible. 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. 16.4% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. About 24% have a four-year degree. About 8,065 people live here, median age 36. Median household income is $54,500, below the U.S. median near $78,000.

Taken together, 28518 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. 28518 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

Big metro or rural, 28518 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 28/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Duplin County, North Carolina and the nation. 28518 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.

28518's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. The point of the 28518 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.