ZIP 28521 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 28521 (Duplin County, North Carolina) at a moderate 32/100 for overall property distress. Environmental exposure also runs high (FEMA disaster exposure (89/100), climate & FEMA risk (87/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (62/100)). Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (69/100), institutional ownership (61/100), construction/permit lag (52/100). 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 28521 posted values that rose 5.4% over the year, at 30/100 phase confidence. Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.

A median home runs $128,800 here, or 2.1 times local income. Rent burden reaches 84% of tenant households. The tenure split is 92% owner-occupied to 8% rented. Vacancy runs 31.9%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Population is roughly 1,554 with a median age of 46. Households earn a median $50,437 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Roughly 16.0% live below the poverty line. On demographic stress specifically, 28521 scores 36/100. There are about 934 housing units across 28521. About 10% have a four-year degree.

On the whole, 28521 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.