ZIP 28673 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Catawba County, North Carolina · High Vacancy market
Scored on a fixed 0-100 scale, 28673 (Catawba County, North Carolina) returns a moderate composite of 30/100. Latent structural risk is 65/100 while live distress already moving reads 8/100. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — flood (NFIP) exposure (89/100), climate & FEMA risk (81/100), FEMA disaster exposure (78/100). Leading the profile are structural risk (65/100), institutional ownership (61/100), construction/permit lag (31/100). By contrast, construction/permit lag (31/100) and mortgage stress (25/100) register low.
The peak-phase market in 28673 posted values that rose 2.3% over the year, and 13% higher over three years (phase confidence 19/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.
A median home runs $459,200 here, or 4.5 times local income. 3.3% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. 6,339 residents call 28673 home, typically aged 54. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 28/100. The tenure split is 89% owner-occupied to 11% rented. There are about 3,871 housing units across 28673. The vacancy rate is 14.8% — elevated. Around 36% of renters are cost-burdened. About 43% have a four-year degree. Households earn a median $99,036 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure.
Taken together, 28673 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.
Big metro or rural, 28673 runs through one identical scoring model, so its 30/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Catawba County, North Carolina and the nation. Where the record is thin for 28673, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.
28673's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. The point of the 28673 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.
What is driving ZIP 28673’s distress
Tax-delinquent parcels, institutional ownership, insurance strain, flood risk, construction lag, price dislocation and auction speed — plus the 0 individual distressed properties (owner, address, APN, per-property score and exit read) are in the full DLRadar report.
Snapshot: 28673 by the numbers
Current distress, phase, housing and lender-pressure figures for 28673, drawn from the same report attached to each property.
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