ZIP 28543 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP 28543's composite property-distress score is 29/100 - DLRadar classes that as low for Onslow County, North Carolina. On the structural side it scores 61/100, with 0/100 of stress already active. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (96/100), FEMA disaster exposure (95/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (69/100). The pressure is most legible in institutional ownership (63/100), structural risk (61/100).

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 3.6% over the trailing year (phase confidence 41/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

Households earn a median $43,680 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. 3% of housing is owner-occupied. 13.7% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Educational attainment sits at 35% bachelor's-or-above. Vacancy runs 19.3%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Around 55% of renters are cost-burdened. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 60/100. About 6,341 people live here, median age 22. The ZIP holds roughly 2,056 housing units.

Net-net, 28543 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. There is no property file for 28543 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable records.

The 28543 read uses the identical scoring model applied coast to coast, which means its 29/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 28543 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Onslow County, North Carolina. Where the record is thin for 28543, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.

The 29/100 figure for 28543 is a composite, not one metric: it rolls up foreclosure and pre-foreclosure activity, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, local lender headwind, and structural risk into a single reading, which is why a ZIP can look calm on price yet score high on distress. The point of the 28543 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.