ZIP 28787 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

In Buncombe County, North Carolina, ZIP 28787 scores 38 of 100 for composite distress, a moderate level on DLRadar's public-record index. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: flood (NFIP) exposure (99/100), FEMA disaster exposure (88/100), climate & FEMA risk (86/100). Its standout signals are construction/permit lag (93/100), structural risk (86/100), institutional ownership (69/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (29/100) register low. Structural exposure scores 86 and live distress 9 on the 0–100 scale.

The market reads contraction — home values fell 0.9% year on year, and 14% higher over three years, at 49/100 phase confidence. A cooling market tends to open discount-to-value windows.

About 22,685 people live here, median age 49. There are about 11,020 housing units across 28787. Home values center near $401,700, an affordability ratio of 5.0×. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 33/100. Owners hold 77% of homes, renters 23%. Educational attainment sits at 44% bachelor's-or-above. 10.8% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Median household income is $75,051, near the U.S. median near $78,000. Vacancy runs 17.9%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Rent burden reaches 35% of tenant households.

Net-net, 28787 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.