ZIP 28624 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Wilkes County, North Carolina · High Vacancy market
In Wilkes County, North Carolina, ZIP 28624 scores 35 of 100 for composite distress, a moderate level on DLRadar's public-record index. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (93/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (87/100), climate & FEMA risk (79/100). The sharpest non-environmental signals are structural risk (78/100), construction/permit lag (73/100), institutional ownership (69/100). mortgage stress (27/100) stay muted. The latent-versus-live split is 78/100 structural and 8/100 already moving.
The peak-phase market in 28624 posted values that rose 1.9% over the year, at 18/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.
About 1,368 people live here, median age 57. 70% of housing is owner-occupied. The ZIP holds roughly 810 housing units. Vacancy runs 22.6%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. The typical home is worth about $202,500. About 8% have a four-year degree. Rent burden reaches 7% of tenant households. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 26/100. At $36,345, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. Roughly 14.0% live below the poverty line.
Taken together, 28624 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. There is no property file for 28624 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable public records.
The 28624 read uses the identical public-record model applied coast to coast, which means its 35/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 28624 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Wilkes County, North Carolina. Sparse data for 28624 shows as blanks, never estimates, and the score updates on every fresh public filing.
28624's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. For a buyer, 28624 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.
Signal-by-signal read on 28624
Tax delinquency, institutional ownership, insurance pressure, NFIP/flood, construction lag, price dislocation and auction velocity — plus the 0 individual distressed properties carry owner, address, APN, a parcel-level score and an exit read in the full DLRadar file.
The 28624 distress snapshot
Real-time distress, cycle phase, housing and bank-stress readings for 28624, the same set carried on every parcel.
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