ZIP 28572 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Duplin County, North Carolina · High Vacancy market
ZIP code 28572 in Duplin County, North Carolina carries a composite property-distress score of 26/100 — a low reading on DLRadar's deterministic distress index. Structurally it carries 56/100, against 8/100 of stress already in motion. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (79/100), FEMA disaster exposure (77/100). The pressure is most legible in institutional ownership (59/100), structural risk (56/100), mortgage stress (26/100). mortgage stress (26/100) and construction/permit lag (17/100) stay muted.
The peak-phase market in 28572 posted values that rose 2.4% over the year, and 43% higher over three years (phase confidence 20/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.
70% of housing is owner-occupied. Households earn a median $57,740 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Population is roughly 6,080 with a median age of 38. About 13% have a four-year degree. There are about 2,830 housing units across 28572. Rent burden reaches 53% of tenant households. Home values center near $137,100, an affordability ratio of 2.1× — accessible. 13.4% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Vacancy runs 12.5%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 30/100.
Taken together, 28572 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. Parcel-level detail for 28572 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced.
No ZIP is too small to score: 28572 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 26/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. 28572 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.
28572'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. In workflow terms, 28572 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.
What is driving ZIP 28572’s distress
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: 28572 by the numbers
Real-time distress, cycle phase, housing and bank-stress readings for 28572, the same set carried on every parcel.
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