ZIP 28525 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP code 28525 in Lenoir County, North Carolina carries a composite property-distress score of 29/100 — a low reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. On the structural side it scores 63/100, with 7/100 of stress already active. The pressure is most legible in structural risk (63/100), institutional ownership (59/100), construction/permit lag (38/100). By contrast, construction/permit lag (38/100) and mortgage stress (24/100) register low. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — FEMA disaster exposure (84/100), climate & FEMA risk (81/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (62/100).

The peak-phase market in 28525 posted values that rose 2.0% over the year, at 18/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

Owners hold 74% of homes, renters 26%. On demographic stress specifically, 28525 scores 26/100. The vacancy rate is 9.9%. About 10% have a four-year degree. 2,684 residents call 28525 home, typically aged 50. There are about 1,503 housing units across 28525. A median home runs $104,800 here, or 1.5 times local income. The poverty rate is 15.4%. Rent burden reaches 34% of tenant households. At $53,750, median income runs below typical U.S. levels.

On balance 28525 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. No parcel file is published for 28525 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

No ZIP is too small to score: 28525 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 29/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 28525, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

Each component behind 28525 - foreclosure, mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, lender pullback, structural exposure - is graded on its own before the 29/100 roll-up. Treat 28525 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.