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

Bamberg County, SC, South Carolina: 8 ZIP codes scored, Bamberg County, SC averaging 28/100 (low, Bamberg, SC), from 23 to 33. Bamberg County, SC is in its expansion phase (Bamberg, SC confidence 48/100): Bamberg, SC home prices up 6.4% (Bamberg, SC) over twelve months. Bamberg County, SC lender headwind: 37/100.

Highest-scoring Bamberg County, SC ZIPs: 29082 (33/100), 29481 (32/100), 29432 (30/100), 29081 (28/100), 29003 (27/100), 29042 (27/100). Also scored in Bamberg County, SC: 29843, 29817.

Across Bamberg County, SC's scored ZIPs: median home value $102,825, household income $45,761, 26.1% vacancy, 19.7% poverty, 76% owner-occupied, median age 46.5.

Bamberg County, SC insurance distress 94/100 (#44 in the US); FEMA hazard 96/100 for Bamberg, SC; 12 federal disaster declarations in Bamberg County, SC since 2023 (2 hurricane, 2 flood); 14 Bamberg, SC NFIP flood claims, $1.4M paid; Bamberg, SC construction distress 45/100.

4 banks with 8 branches lend in Bamberg County, SC; Bamberg, SC weighted bank stress 55/100, highest 68/100 in Bamberg, SC.

Bamberg County, SC unemployment 5.3% (Bamberg, SC -1.5 pts, six months); 19 new housing units permitted in Bamberg County, SC over twelve months, Bamberg, SC up 0% from 19; Bamberg, SC home prices +9.3% a year (Bamberg, SC) over three years.

6,581 housing units in Bamberg County, SC; 1,184 Bamberg, SC renter households; 44% of Bamberg, SC renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 21% (Bamberg, SC) half or more.

Bamberg County, SC ranks #208 nationally on the opportunity index (Bamberg, SC, among all ranked counties); Bamberg, SC scores 35.7/100 and Bamberg, SC sits #7 inside South Carolina. Bamberg, SC is in the overheated opportunity phase; Bamberg, SC's primary driver is vacancy, Bamberg, SC second driver bank institutional; Bamberg, SC moved down 112 places. 37 days on market observed in Bamberg, SC; 28.9% vacancy over 8 Bamberg, SC ZIPs.

No CFPB county sample covers Bamberg County, SC. The non-metro area reading for Bamberg, SC: 1.4% ninety-plus days late; Bamberg, SC's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 4.5% (Bamberg, SC, December 2025 data); South Carolina overall 1.2%.

Bamberg County, SC has 2 watched banks; 2 Bamberg, SC banks sit in an elevated band. Bamberg, SC footprints: Enterprise Bank Of Sc (3 branches, stress 42) in Bamberg, SC; Home Fs&La (1 branch, stress 68) in Bamberg, SC.

HUD lists 1 assisted multifamily property in Bamberg County, SC with 36 units; 36 Bamberg, SC units are assisted.

1,937 of the 6,581 housing units in Bamberg, SC sit vacant. Bamberg County, SC permitted 4 multifamily units in twelve months; Bamberg, SC's one-to-four unit structures added 15 units in Bamberg County, SC.