ZIP 28602 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 28602 (Catawba County, North Carolina) at a moderate 33/100 for overall property distress. Structural risk reads 73/100 against active distress of 8/100. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (73/100), institutional ownership (68/100), construction/permit lag (53/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (26/100). Environmental exposure also runs high (flood (NFIP) exposure (91/100), FEMA disaster exposure (88/100), climate & FEMA risk (79/100)).

The peak-phase market in 28602 posted values that rose 1.2% over the year, and 26% higher over three years, at 50/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

There are about 13,371 housing units across 28602. Vacancy runs 10.9%. The tenure split is 66% owner-occupied to 34% rented. Rent burden reaches 29% of tenant households. Population is roughly 29,273 with a median age of 41. On demographic stress specifically, 28602 scores 31/100. Households earn a median $56,031 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Roughly 16.4% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. A median home runs $212,900 here, or 3.2 times local income. About 18% have a four-year degree.

On balance 28602 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.