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

Beaufort County, SC, South Carolina: 16 ZIP codes scored, Beaufort County, SC averaging 40/100 (moderate, Beaufort, SC), from 36 to 40. Beaufort County, SC is in its peak phase (Beaufort, SC confidence 51/100): Beaufort, SC home prices up 4.0% (Beaufort, SC) over twelve months. Beaufort County, SC lender headwind: 45/100.

Highest-scoring Beaufort County, SC ZIPs: 29902 (40/100), 29904 (40/100), 29905 (40/100), 29906 (40/100), 29907 (40/100), 29909 (40/100). Also scored in Beaufort County, SC: 29910, 29915, 29920, 29926, 29928, 29935, 29940, 29941, 29927, 29945.

Across Beaufort County, SC's scored ZIPs: median home value $519,550, household income $85,067, 20.9% vacancy, 18.6% poverty, 72% owner-occupied, median age 47.0.

Beaufort County, SC insurance distress 92/100 (#67 in the US); FEMA hazard 95/100 for Beaufort, SC; 10 federal disaster declarations in Beaufort County, SC since 2023 (2 hurricane); 82 Beaufort, SC NFIP flood claims, $1.6M paid; Beaufort, SC construction distress 93/100.

20 banks with 53 branches lend in Beaufort County, SC; Beaufort, SC weighted bank stress 61/100, highest 74/100 in Beaufort, SC.

Beaufort County, SC unemployment 4.0% (Beaufort, SC -1.3 pts, six months); 963 new housing units permitted in Beaufort County, SC over twelve months, Beaufort, SC down 43% from 1,701; Beaufort, SC home prices +13.6% a year (Beaufort, SC) over three years.

103,177 housing units in Beaufort County, SC; 19,123 Beaufort, SC renter households; 46% of Beaufort, SC renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 20% (Beaufort, SC) half or more.

Beaufort County, SC ranks #126 nationally on the opportunity index (Beaufort, SC, among all ranked counties); Beaufort, SC scores 36.7/100 and Beaufort, SC sits #5 inside South Carolina. Beaufort, SC is in the strong_buy opportunity phase; Beaufort, SC's primary driver is construction, Beaufort, SC second driver vacancy; Beaufort, SC moved down 7 places. 103 short-sale listings across Beaufort, SC; 46 days on market observed in Beaufort, SC; 15.6% vacancy over 16 Beaufort, SC ZIPs.

0.7% of Beaufort County, SC mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Beaufort, SC's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 1.2% (CFPB county sample). Beaufort, SC's ninety-day rate is up 0.3 points on twelve months earlier; the Beaufort, SC peak since 2008 was 5.2% in January 2011; South Carolina overall reads 1.2%.

Beaufort County, SC has 4 watched banks; 4 Beaufort, SC banks sit in an elevated band. Beaufort, SC footprints: Coastal States Bank (5 branches, stress 64) in Beaufort, SC; South Atlantic Bank (3 branches, stress 74) in Beaufort, SC; Palmetto State Bank (3 branches, stress 58) in Beaufort, SC.

HUD lists 6 assisted multifamily properties in Beaufort County, SC with 493 units; 35 Beaufort, SC units are assisted.

20,844 of the 103,177 housing units in Beaufort, SC sit vacant. Beaufort County, SC permitted 12 multifamily units in twelve months; Beaufort, SC's one-to-four unit structures added 951 units in Beaufort County, SC.