ZIP 28701 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 28701 (Buncombe County, North Carolina) at a moderate 39/100 for overall property distress. Structural risk reads 87/100 against active distress of 9/100. Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (93/100), structural risk (87/100), institutional ownership (69/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (29/100). Environmental exposure also runs high (flood (NFIP) exposure (99/100), FEMA disaster exposure (88/100), climate & FEMA risk (87/100)).

The contraction-phase market in 28701 posted values that fell 0.9% over the year, and 1% higher over three years, at 49/100 phase confidence. Softening prices widen the spread between distressed and market value — what acquisition buyers watch for.

Vacancy runs 18.8%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. On demographic stress specifically, 28701 scores 29/100. The tenure split is 84% owner-occupied to 16% rented. There are about 1,935 housing units across 28701. A median home runs $324,300 here, or 3.2 times local income. Households earn a median $92,047 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. Population is roughly 5,515 with a median age of 41. Roughly 5.2% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas. About 42% have a four-year degree. Rent burden reaches 52% of tenant households.

On the whole, 28701 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.