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

Chester County, SC, South Carolina: 11 ZIP codes scored, Chester County, SC averaging 26/100 (low, Chester, SC), from 21 to 28. Chester County, SC is in its peak phase (Chester, SC confidence 16/100): Chester, SC home prices up 1.0% (Chester, SC) over twelve months. Chester County, SC lender headwind: 31/100.

Highest-scoring Chester County, SC ZIPs: 29730 (28/100), 29014 (27/100), 29055 (27/100), 29714 (27/100), 29724 (27/100), 29729 (27/100). Also scored in Chester County, SC: 29742, 29706, 29704, 29712, 29031.

Across Chester County, SC's scored ZIPs: median home value $176,890, household income $59,368, 12.9% vacancy, 14.1% poverty, 82% owner-occupied, median age 43.6.

Chester County, SC insurance distress 82/100 (#298 in the US); FEMA hazard 93/100 for Chester, SC; 8 federal disaster declarations in Chester County, SC since 2023 (2 hurricane); 2 Chester, SC NFIP flood claims, $32K paid; Chester, SC construction distress 48/100.

3 banks with 5 branches lend in Chester County, SC; Chester, SC weighted bank stress 57/100, highest 71/100 in Chester, SC.

Chester County, SC unemployment 5.3% (Chester, SC -1.2 pts, six months); 255 new housing units permitted in Chester County, SC over twelve months, Chester, SC down 11% from 286; Chester, SC home prices +11.1% a year (Chester, SC) over three years.

14,807 housing units in Chester County, SC; 2,858 Chester, SC renter households; 42% of Chester, SC renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 20% (Chester, SC) half or more.

Chester County, SC ranks #443 nationally on the opportunity index (Chester, SC, among all ranked counties); Chester, SC scores 33.7/100 and Chester, SC sits #16 inside South Carolina. Chester, SC is in the peak_opportunity opportunity phase; Chester, SC's primary driver is vacancy, Chester, SC second driver bank institutional; Chester, SC moved up 519 places. 15 short-sale listings across Chester, SC; 73 days on market observed in Chester, SC; 11.8% vacancy over 11 Chester, SC ZIPs.

No CFPB county sample covers Chester County, SC. The metro area reading for Chester, SC (Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC): 0.9% ninety-plus days late; Chester, SC's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 2.3% (Chester, SC, December 2025 data); South Carolina overall 1.2%.

Chester County, SC has 1 watched bank; 1 Chester, SC bank sits in an elevated band. Chester, SC footprints: Spratt Savings Bank (3 branches, stress 51) in Chester, SC.

HUD lists 2 assisted multifamily properties in Chester County, SC with 25 units; 25 Chester, SC units are assisted.

1,648 of the 14,807 housing units in Chester, SC sit vacant. Chester County, SC permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Chester, SC's one-to-four unit structures added 255 units in Chester County, SC.