ZIP 28779 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 28779 (Jackson County, North Carolina) at a moderate 32/100 for overall property distress. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (71/100), institutional ownership (65/100), construction/permit lag (59/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (29/100). The latent-versus-live split is 71/100 structural and 9/100 already moving. Environmental exposure also runs high (FEMA disaster exposure (88/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (80/100), climate & FEMA risk (76/100)).

The expansion-phase market in 28779 posted values that rose 5.5% over the year, and 25% higher over three years (phase confidence 30/100). Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.

Households earn a median $54,407 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Around 38% of renters are cost-burdened. The tenure split is 67% owner-occupied to 33% rented. On demographic stress specifically, 28779 scores 34/100. The ZIP holds roughly 9,692 housing units. A median home runs $243,700 here, or 4.3 times local income. About 28% have a four-year degree. Population is roughly 17,845 with a median age of 42. Roughly 16.4% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. The vacancy rate is 15.4% — elevated.

On the whole, 28779 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.