ZIP 28544 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Onslow County, North Carolina · High Vacancy market
Onslow County, North Carolina's ZIP 28544 registers 30/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. Its standout signals are institutional ownership (66/100), structural risk (64/100), mortgage stress (26/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (26/100) and construction/permit lag (9/100) register low. Structural exposure scores 64 and live distress 8 on the 0–100 scale. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (96/100), FEMA disaster exposure (93/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (71/100)).
The peak-phase market in 28544 posted values that rose 3.6% over the year, and 36% higher over three years, at 41/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.
Median household income is $49,449, below the U.S. median near $78,000. 21.1% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. The typical home is worth about $141,700 (2.8× income, relatively affordable). The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 36/100. About 18% have a four-year degree. Vacancy runs 20.3%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. 4,260 residents call 28544 home, typically aged 27. Owners hold 30% of homes, renters 70%. Around 37% of renters are cost-burdened. The ZIP holds roughly 2,159 housing units.
On the whole, 28544 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. No parcel file is published for 28544 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.
Big metro or rural, 28544 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 30/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Onslow County, North Carolina and the nation. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 28544, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.
Behind 28544'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. Treat 28544 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.
Distress signal breakdown — ZIP 28544
Delinquency on tax, investor concentration, insurance pressure, NFIP flood, lagging construction, price dislocation and sale velocity — and the 0 individual distressed properties — each with owner, address, APN, its own distress score and an exit read — are in the full report.
Snapshot: 28544 by the numbers
Current distress, phase, housing and lender-pressure figures for 28544, drawn from the same report attached to each property.
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