ZIP 28606 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

On DLRadar's 0-100 distress scale, ZIP 28606 in Wilkes County, North Carolina comes in at 34, a moderate composite-distress reading. Structural risk reads 75/100 against active distress of 8/100. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — FEMA disaster exposure (87/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (86/100), climate & FEMA risk (78/100). Its heaviest discrete signals: structural risk (75/100), institutional ownership (66/100), construction/permit lag (66/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (27/100).

The market reads peak — home values rose 2.0% year on year, at 18/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

A median home runs $95,900 here, or 1.5 times local income. Around 0% of renters are cost-burdened. The vacancy rate is 19.3% — elevated. 15.8% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. About 1,743 people live here, median age 60. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 20/100. The tenure split is 87% owner-occupied to 13% rented. About 11% have a four-year degree. There are about 1,032 housing units across 28606. Median household income is $51,009, below the U.S. median near $78,000.

Net-net, 28606 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. While 28606 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.

Whether 28606 runs hot or quiet, its 34/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 28606 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Wilkes County, North Carolina or nationwide. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 28606 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

28606'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, 28606 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.