ZIP 28655 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Burke County, North Carolina · High Poverty market
DLRadar grades ZIP 28655 (Burke County, North Carolina) at a low 28/100 for overall property distress. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — flood (NFIP) exposure (98/100), FEMA disaster exposure (87/100), climate & FEMA risk (68/100). Its standout signals are institutional ownership (69/100), structural risk (61/100), mortgage stress (26/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (26/100) and construction/permit lag (15/100) register low. Structural exposure scores 61 and live distress 8 on the 0–100 scale.
Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.3% over the trailing year, and 17% higher over three years, at 19/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.
Population is roughly 56,201 with a median age of 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%. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 31/100. A median home runs $191,800 here, or 3.2 times local income. Households earn a median $53,464 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Around 35% of renters are cost-burdened. Roughly 21.2% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory.
On the whole, 28655 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.
Whether 28655 runs hot or quiet, its 28/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 28655 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Burke County, North Carolina or nationwide. 28655 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.
28655's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. In workflow terms, 28655 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.
What is driving ZIP 28655’s distress
Tax delinquency, institutional ownership, insurance pressure, NFIP/flood, construction lag, price dislocation and auction velocity — plus the 0 individual distressed properties are listed in full, with owner, address, APN, per-parcel score and exit-velocity read.
The 28655 distress snapshot
Live ZIP-level distress, market-phase, housing and bank-pressure read — the same report attached to every property.
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The complete 28655 distress and acquisition report
Every distressed parcel in 28655 comes with owner and address, APN, its own distress score, bank exposure and an exit-velocity read — plus a one-click path to owner and lender records, refreshed continuously nationwide.
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