South Carolina Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Across South Carolina, DLRadar turns foreclosure, mortgage, tax and bank-stress records into a distress score for every ZIP. Statewide, counties skew peak, prices up 4.4% on average. The state covers 46 scored counties and 424 ZIP codes, averaging 31/100 composite distress. Counties break down as 25 peak, 16 expansion, 5 neutral by phase.

The most stressed counties include Allendale County, Abbeville County, Kershaw County, Aiken County, Fairfield County — each with a full county distress report.

The highest-scoring South Carolina ZIPs are 29902 (41/100), 29904 (41/100), 29905 (41/100), 29906 (41/100), 29907 (41/100) — open any for the parcel read.

A county-level read across South Carolina follows.

Abbeville County sits in peak, homes +3.8% YoY, a 75/100 lender reading. DLRadar reads Aiken County as neutral — appreciation near 4.9%, lender pressure 68/100. DLRadar reads Allendale County as expansion — prices up 6.4%, headwind 83/100. In Anderson County, peak: up 3.2% on the year, headwind 46/100. Bamberg County reads expansion — homes +6.4% YoY, a 37/100 lender reading. Barnwell County reads expansion — values rising 6.4%, a 34/100 lender reading. Beaufort County is peak (appreciation near 4.0%, lender pressure 45/100).

Berkeley County is in its neutral phase, prices up 4.2%, lender pressure 52/100. Calhoun County: peak, prices up 3.6%, lender pressure 40/100. Charleston County is neutral (up 4.2% on the year, headwind 47/100). Cherokee County — peak, prices up 3.8%. Chester County: peak, up 1.0% on the year, bank stress 31/100. Chesterfield County: expansion, prices up 6.4%, bank stress 52/100. Clarendon County: expansion, prices up 6.4%, lender pressure 57/100.

Colleton County sits in expansion, appreciation near 6.4%, lender pressure 50/100. DLRadar reads Darlington County as expansion — values rising 6.2%, 2.5% off peak, a 45/100 lender reading. Dillon County reads expansion — prices up 6.4%, bank stress 55/100. DLRadar reads Dorchester County as neutral — values rising 4.2%, lender pressure 37/100. DLRadar reads Edgefield County as neutral — prices up 4.9%, lender pressure 55/100. Fairfield County sits in peak, prices up 3.6%, lender pressure 68/100. Florence County: expansion, up 6.2% on the year, 2.5% off peak, lender pressure 47/100.

Georgetown County — peak, up 3.8% on the year, bank stress 50/100. Greenville County sits in peak, up 3.2% on the year, headwind 50/100. DLRadar reads Greenwood County as peak — homes +3.8% YoY, lender pressure 63/100. In Hampton County, expansion: prices up 6.4%, lender pressure 61/100. Horry County reads peak — prices up 0.7%, a 49/100 lender reading. DLRadar reads Jasper County as peak — values rising 4.0%, headwind 36/100. Kershaw County sits in peak, homes +3.6% YoY, bank stress 69/100.

DLRadar reads Lancaster County as peak — appreciation near 1.0%, headwind 62/100. Laurens County is in its peak phase, up 3.2% on the year, lender pressure 49/100. Lee County sits in expansion, up 6.4% on the year, bank stress 63/100. Lexington County sits in peak, up 3.6% on the year, a 53/100 lender reading. Marion County reads expansion — homes +6.4% YoY, headwind 47/100. Marlboro County: expansion, up 6.4% on the year, bank stress 46/100. DLRadar reads Mccormick County as expansion — homes +6.4% YoY, headwind 58/100.

Newberry County reads peak — homes +3.8% YoY, a 54/100 lender reading. Oconee County sits in peak, up 3.8% on the year, headwind 67/100. Orangeburg County reads peak — values rising 3.8%, bank stress 32/100. Pickens County sits in peak, prices up 3.2%, a 55/100 lender reading. Richland County reads peak — appreciation near 3.6%, bank stress 58/100. DLRadar reads Saluda County as peak — appreciation near 3.6%, bank stress 54/100. In Spartanburg County, peak: values rising 1.7%, bank stress 46/100.

Sumter County is expansion (homes +8.7% YoY, bank stress 49/100). Union County: peak, up 1.7% on the year, headwind 67/100. Williamsburg County sits in expansion, appreciation near 6.4%, bank stress 65/100. York County reads peak — values rising 1.0%, a 42/100 lender reading.

Every South Carolina score above is deterministic: each foreclosure, mortgage-stress, tax-delinquency, lien, bank-exposure and climate signal traces back to a specific public record, then rolls up from parcel to ZIP to county. Given the peak tilt statewide, what matters is where South Carolina counties and ZIPs deviate, not the average itself.

Pick a South Carolina county to go deeper, or head directly to a ZIP score. Subscribers get each distressed South Carolina property's owner, mailing address, APN, a per-parcel score, bank exposure and an exit read.

Whether South Carolina runs hot or quiet on distress, each market is graded on the identical public-record model — court and recorder filings, FHFA price data and FDIC lender stress — so South Carolina stays directly comparable to any other state you track. Every figure is traceable: South Carolina signals trace to public federal and county records, so the read reflects the documents, not an estimate.

At the county level, the highest-distress counties include Allendale County, Abbeville County, Kershaw County, Aiken County, Fairfield County , and at ZIP level 29902 (41/100), 29904 (41/100), 29905 (41/100), 29906 (41/100), 29907 (41/100) score highest.

Each South Carolina score is a composite, combining foreclosure activity, tax and lien delinquency, mortgage stress and bank headwind before they roll up to the number shown.

For a buyer, the workflow in South Carolina is the same regardless of the state's size: open the top-ranked county, follow it down to the hottest ZIPs, and finish at the specific parcels driving the distress — and DLRadar carries the South Carolina deal from that signal through capital and closing.

Because the model is deterministic, a South Carolina score can be traced back to the exact filings behind it — foreclosure dockets, tax rolls, recorded liens, FHFA price series and FDIC call reports — leaving no unexplained or modeled component in the South Carolina score.