ZIP 28579 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP 28579's composite property-distress score is 37/100 - DLRadar classes that as moderate for Carteret County, North Carolina. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (93/100), FEMA disaster exposure (93/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (83/100)). Structural risk reads 83/100 against active distress of 10/100. Its heaviest discrete signals: structural risk (83/100), construction/permit lag (77/100), institutional ownership (69/100). mortgage stress (32/100) stay muted.

The peak-phase market in 28579 posted values that rose 1.9% over the year, at 18/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

Home values center near $506,600, an affordability ratio of 4.2×. The tenure split is 91% owner-occupied to 9% rented. Population is roughly 652 with a median age of 53. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 30/100. Educational attainment sits at 22% bachelor's-or-above. Households earn a median $100,139 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. Vacancy runs 20.8%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Roughly 9.5% live below the poverty line. There are about 213 housing units across 28579.

Taken together, 28579 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. While 28579 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.

No ZIP is too small to score: 28579 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 37/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 28579, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

28579'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. Treat 28579 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.