ZIP 28788 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP code 28788 in Jackson County, North Carolina carries a composite property-distress score of 29/100 — a low reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (84/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (80/100), climate & FEMA risk (76/100). On the structural side it scores 65/100, with 9/100 of stress already active. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (65/100), institutional ownership (63/100), construction/permit lag (36/100). construction/permit lag (36/100) and mortgage stress (29/100) stay muted.

The peak-phase market in 28788 posted values that rose 2.8% over the year, at 22/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

At $78,125, median income runs near typical U.S. levels. Rent burden reaches 15% of tenant households. 2.0% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. The ZIP holds roughly 96 housing units. A median home runs $382,600 here, or 4.5 times local income. Around 77% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 24/100. The vacancy rate is 23.5% — elevated. 74% of housing is owner-occupied. About 197 people live here, median age 45.

On the whole, 28788 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. No parcel file is published for 28788 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

Big metro or rural, 28788 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 29/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Jackson County, North Carolina and the nation. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 28788, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

28788'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 28788 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.