Anderson County, SC: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Anderson County, SC, South Carolina: 19 ZIP codes scored, Anderson County, SC averaging 33/100 (moderate, Anderson, SC), from 28 to 36. Anderson County, SC is in its peak phase (Anderson, SC confidence 22/100): Anderson, SC home prices up 3.2% (Anderson, SC) over twelve months. Anderson County, SC lender headwind: 46/100.

Highest-scoring Anderson County, SC ZIPs: 29611 (36/100), 29669 (36/100), 29673 (35/100), 29627 (34/100), 29631 (34/100), 29621 (33/100). Also scored in Anderson County, SC: 29624, 29625, 29626, 29630, 29642, 29657, 29670, 29684, 29689, 29697.

Across Anderson County, SC's scored ZIPs: median home value $223,689, household income $61,729, 12.0% vacancy, 16.8% poverty, 74% owner-occupied, median age 39.8.

Anderson County, SC insurance distress 90/100 (#102 in the US); FEMA hazard 93/100 for Anderson, SC; 8 federal disaster declarations in Anderson County, SC since 2023 (2 hurricane); 5 Anderson, SC NFIP flood claims, $362K paid; Anderson, SC construction distress 45/100.

17 banks with 43 branches lend in Anderson County, SC; Anderson, SC weighted bank stress 59/100, highest 81/100 in Anderson, SC.

Anderson County, SC unemployment 4.2% (Anderson, SC -0.9 pts, six months); 1,597 new housing units permitted in Anderson County, SC over twelve months, Anderson, SC up 7% from 1,495; Anderson, SC home prices +12.2% a year (Anderson, SC) over three years.

92,319 housing units in Anderson County, SC; 20,175 Anderson, SC renter households; 41% of Anderson, SC renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 22% (Anderson, SC) half or more.

Anderson County, SC ranks #898 nationally on the opportunity index (Anderson, SC, among all ranked counties); Anderson, SC scores 31.6/100 and Anderson, SC sits #34 inside South Carolina. Anderson, SC is in the watchlist opportunity phase; Anderson, SC's primary driver is bank institutional, Anderson, SC second driver vacancy; Anderson, SC moved up 598 places. 31 short-sale listings across Anderson, SC; 81 days on market observed in Anderson, SC; 9.3% vacancy over 19 Anderson, SC ZIPs.

1.3% of Anderson County, SC mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Anderson, SC's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 3.6% (CFPB county sample). Anderson, SC's ninety-day rate is up 0.5 points on twelve months earlier; the Anderson, SC peak since 2008 was 4.3% in December 2009; South Carolina overall reads 1.2%.

Anderson County, SC has 5 watched banks; 5 Anderson, SC banks sit in an elevated band. Anderson, SC footprints: Peoples Bank (8 branches, stress 53) in Anderson, SC; Commercial Bank (3 branches, stress 81) in Anderson, SC; United Community Bank (2 branches, stress 56) in Anderson, SC.

HUD lists 9 assisted multifamily properties in Anderson County, SC with 496 units; 280 Anderson, SC units are assisted, 3 Anderson, SC properties under project-based Section 8.

8,415 of the 92,319 housing units in Anderson, SC sit vacant. Anderson County, SC permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Anderson, SC's one-to-four unit structures added 1,597 units in Anderson County, SC.