ZIP 28652 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

DLRadar grades ZIP 28652 (Avery County, North Carolina) at a low 22/100 for overall property distress. Its standout signals are institutional ownership (67/100), structural risk (50/100). Structurally it carries 50/100, against 0/100 of stress already in motion. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: flood (NFIP) exposure (98/100), FEMA disaster exposure (84/100).

The peak-phase market in 28652 posted values that rose 2.8% over the year (phase confidence 22/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

Population is roughly 157 with a median age of 58. Vacancy runs 45.6%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. 100% of housing is owner-occupied. About 22% have a four-year degree. Roughly 0.0% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas. There are about 76 housing units across 28652. On demographic stress specifically, 28652 scores 25/100.

Taken together, 28652 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. 28652 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

Big metro or rural, 28652 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 22/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Avery County, North Carolina and the nation. Where the public record is thin for 28652, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.

28652'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 28652 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.