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ZIP 28531 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Carteret County, North Carolina · High Vacancy market

DLRadar grades ZIP 28531 (Carteret County, North Carolina) at a moderate 37/100 for overall property distress. The pressure is most legible in structural risk (83/100), construction/permit lag (77/100), institutional ownership (69/100). mortgage stress (32/100) stay muted. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (93/100), FEMA disaster exposure (93/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (83/100). Structural exposure scores 83 and live distress 10 on the 0–100 scale.

The peak-phase market in 28531 posted values that rose 1.9% over the year, and 43% higher over three years, at 18/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

Rent burden reaches 7% of tenant households. The poverty rate is 11.9%. 1,080 residents call 28531 home, typically aged 60. The ZIP holds roughly 1,170 housing units. At $58,750, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. On demographic stress specifically, 28531 scores 35/100. 84% of housing is owner-occupied. The typical home is worth about $313,100 (5.0× income). Around 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Vacancy runs 62.3%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal.

On the whole, 28531 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. 28531 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 28531's 37/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Carteret County, North Carolina or any ZIP coast to coast. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 28531 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

Behind 28531's composite sit distinct signals (foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender and structural), each scored on its own before rolling up, so two ZIPs with the same total can describe very different situations on the ground. In workflow terms, 28531 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.

37/100
Composite stress
83/100
Structural risk
10/100
Distress activity

Signal-by-signal read on 28531

Foreclosure activity0
Mortgage stress32
Climate / FEMA risk93
Nine more distress signals are scored here

Delinquency on tax, investor concentration, insurance pressure, NFIP flood, lagging construction, price dislocation and sale velocity — and the 0 individual distressed properties carry owner, address, APN, a parcel-level score and an exit read in the full DLRadar file.

ZIP 28531 Stress Report snapshot

Current distress, phase, housing and lender-pressure figures for 28531, drawn from the same report attached to each property.

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