ZIP 28655 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Burke County, North Carolina · High Poverty market
ZIP code 28655 in Burke County, North Carolina carries a composite property-distress score of 30/100 — a moderate reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: flood (NFIP) exposure (97/100), FEMA disaster exposure (88/100), climate & FEMA risk (68/100). What sets it apart are the readings on institutional ownership (69/100), structural risk (66/100), construction/permit lag (35/100). By contrast, construction/permit lag (35/100) and mortgage stress (26/100) register low. Structural exposure scores 66 and live distress 8 on the 0–100 scale.
The market reads peak — home values rose 1.2% year on year, and 17% higher over three years, at 50/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.
About 56,201 people live here, median age 44. There are about 24,750 housing units across 28655. Owners hold 73% of homes, renters 27%. Educational attainment sits at 21% bachelor's-or-above. Vacancy runs 9.8%. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 31/100. Home values center near $191,800, an affordability ratio of 3.2× — accessible. Median household income is $53,464, below the U.S. median near $78,000. Rent burden reaches 35% of tenant households. 21.2% of residents fall below the poverty threshold.
Net-net, 28655 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.
Distress signal breakdown — ZIP 28655
Tax delinquency, institutional ownership, insurance pressure, NFIP/flood, construction lag, price dislocation and auction velocity — plus the 0 individual distressed properties (owner, address, APN, per-property score and exit read) are in the full DLRadar report.
ZIP 28655 Stress Report snapshot
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