ZIP 28542 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP code 28542 in Onslow County, North Carolina carries a composite property-distress score of 30/100 — a moderate reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. The sharpest non-environmental signals are institutional ownership (66/100), structural risk (64/100), construction/permit lag (9/100). On the quiet end sit construction/permit lag (9/100). Structurally it carries 64/100, against 0/100 of stress already in motion. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (96/100), FEMA disaster exposure (93/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (71/100).

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 3.6% over the trailing year, at 41/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

3,559 residents call 28542 home, typically aged 21. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 24/100. At $112,981, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. Rent burden reaches 0% of tenant households. 0% of housing is owner-occupied. Vacancy runs 0.0%. Roughly 0.0% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas. There are about 45 housing units across 28542. Around 54% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher.

Net-net, 28542 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. Parcel-level detail for 28542 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced to public records.

The 28542 read uses the identical public-record model applied coast to coast, which means its 30/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 28542 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Onslow County, North Carolina. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 28542 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

28542's score blends several independent layers — foreclosure and mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, bank headwind and structural exposure — into one 0–100 number, so understanding the components matters as much as the headline for anyone screening the ZIP. For an operator, 28542 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.