ZIP 28773 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

In Polk County, North Carolina, ZIP 28773 scores 26 of 100 for composite distress, a low level on DLRadar's public-record index. The most distinctive pressure shows up in institutional ownership (69/100), structural risk (59/100), construction/permit lag (35/100). On the quiet end sit construction/permit lag (35/100) and mortgage stress (28/100). Environmental exposure also runs high (flood (NFIP) exposure (96/100), FEMA disaster exposure (89/100)). On the structural side it scores 59/100, with 8/100 of stress already active.

The peak-phase market in 28773 posted values that rose 2.2% over the year, and 31% higher over three years, at 21/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

On demographic stress specifically, 28773 scores 38/100. Owners hold 88% of homes, renters 12%. 3,198 residents call 28773 home, typically aged 55. Around 59% of renters are cost-burdened. Roughly 16.1% live below the poverty line. Educational attainment sits at 37% bachelor's-or-above. Vacancy runs 40.3%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. A median home runs $413,700 here, or 4.5 times local income. At $80,625, median income runs near typical U.S. levels. There are about 2,036 housing units across 28773.

On the whole, 28773 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. No parcel file is published for 28773 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

The number is not local guesswork: 28773's 26/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. Where the public record is thin for 28773, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.

The 26/100 for 28773 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. For a buyer, 28773 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.