Aiken County, SC: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Aiken County, SC, South Carolina: 23 ZIP codes scored, Aiken County, SC averaging 33/100 (moderate, Aiken, SC), from 22 to 36. Aiken County, SC is in its neutral phase (Aiken, SC confidence 27/100): Aiken, SC home prices up 4.9% (Aiken, SC) over twelve months. Aiken County, SC lender headwind: 68/100.
Highest-scoring Aiken County, SC ZIPs: 29137 (36/100), 29146 (36/100), 29164 (35/100), 29801 (35/100), 29803 (35/100), 29805 (35/100). Also scored in Aiken County, SC: 29809, 29816, 29828, 29829, 29831, 29834, 29841, 29842, 29851, 29856.
Across Aiken County, SC's scored ZIPs: median home value $163,314, household income $67,951, 16.0% vacancy, 18.9% poverty, 75% owner-occupied, median age 39.6.
Aiken County, SC insurance distress 82/100 (#293 in the US); FEMA hazard 93/100 for Aiken, SC; 8 federal disaster declarations in Aiken County, SC since 2023 (2 hurricane); 7 Aiken, SC NFIP flood claims, $22K paid; Aiken, SC construction distress 82/100.
12 banks with 28 branches lend in Aiken County, SC; Aiken, SC weighted bank stress 68/100, highest 96/100 in Aiken, SC.
Aiken County, SC unemployment 4.2% (Aiken, SC -1.2 pts, six months); 1,560 new housing units permitted in Aiken County, SC over twelve months, Aiken, SC down 32% from 2,302; Aiken, SC home prices +10.3% a year (Aiken, SC) over three years.
80,008 housing units in Aiken County, SC; 16,003 Aiken, SC renter households; 43% of Aiken, SC renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 22% (Aiken, SC) half or more.
Aiken County, SC ranks #286 nationally on the opportunity index (Aiken, SC, among all ranked counties); Aiken, SC scores 34.9/100 and Aiken, SC sits #11 inside South Carolina. Aiken, SC is in the peak_opportunity opportunity phase; Aiken, SC's primary driver is construction, Aiken, SC second driver vacancy; Aiken, SC moved up 25 places. 27 short-sale listings across Aiken, SC; 87 days on market observed in Aiken, SC; 12.7% vacancy over 23 Aiken, SC ZIPs.
1.0% of Aiken County, SC mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Aiken, SC's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 2.5% (CFPB county sample). Aiken, SC's ninety-day rate is up 0.4 points on twelve months earlier; the Aiken, SC peak since 2008 was 3.8% in December 2012; South Carolina overall reads 1.2%.
Aiken County, SC has 4 watched banks; 4 Aiken, SC banks sit in an elevated band. Aiken, SC footprints: Security Federal Bank (9 branches, stress 74) in Aiken, SC; Southern Bank (1 branch, stress 96) in Aiken, SC; Coastal Carolina Nb (1 branch, stress 73) in Aiken, SC.
HUD lists 16 assisted multifamily properties in Aiken County, SC with 744 units; 436 Aiken, SC units are assisted, 4 Aiken, SC properties under project-based Section 8.
10,092 of the 80,008 housing units in Aiken, SC sit vacant. Aiken County, SC permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Aiken, SC's one-to-four unit structures added 1,560 units in Aiken County, SC.