ZIP 28551 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Lenoir County, North Carolina · Affordable market
ZIP code 28551 in Lenoir County, North Carolina carries a composite property-distress score of 29/100 — a low reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (84/100), climate & FEMA risk (79/100). On the structural side it scores 63/100, with 7/100 of stress already active. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (63/100), institutional ownership (58/100), construction/permit lag (46/100). mortgage stress (23/100) stay muted.
The peak-phase market in 28551 posted values that rose 1.9% over the year, and 22% higher over three years, at 18/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.
On demographic stress specifically, 28551 scores 27/100. Rent burden reaches 30% of tenant households. Owners hold 71% of homes, renters 29%. Around 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The poverty rate is 12.0%. A median home runs $131,100 here, or 2.3 times local income. Vacancy runs 11.6%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Population is roughly 13,264 with a median age of 38. Households earn a median $52,449 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. There are about 6,003 housing units across 28551.
On balance 28551 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. 28551 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.
Big metro or rural, 28551 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 29/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Lenoir County, North Carolina and the nation. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 28551, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.
28551's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. Treat 28551 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.
Signal-by-signal read on 28551
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.
The 28551 distress snapshot
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