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

Across Chester County, South Carolina, DLRadar grades every ZIP for foreclosure, mortgage, tax and bank-stress distress. The county's ZIP scores run from 21 up to 29/100. DLRadar scores 11 ZIPs here, with a mean composite of 26/100. Bank/credit headwind for the county is 31 on a 0–100 scale, a contained reading.

Currently peak, Chester County saw prices rise 1.0% year over year, at 16/100 phase confidence. With values leveling off, the average masks the outliers as the ZIP scores below show.

With Chester County flat at +1.0% YoY (16/100 confidence), the wins are surgical well beyond the county average. Lender stress at 31/100 (contained) puts the live signals on tax delinquency, probate and liens.

Top distress by ZIP runs 29730 (29/100), 29742 (28/100), 29014 (27/100), 29055 (27/100), 29706 (27/100), 29714 (27/100), listed with every scored ZIP below. Also scored across the county: 29724, 29729, 29704, 29712, 29031.

Profile-wise, the Chester County ZIPs on file come in at a median household income near $59,368 (below the US norm), a 12.9% vacancy rate, an owner-occupied share of 82%, home values averaging roughly $176,890, below the US, 14.1% of households below the poverty line, residents with a median age around 43.6. Taken together, they signal how much distress reaches the market and how fast it moves.

With a low 26/100 reading over 11 ZIPs, Chester County rewards parcel-by-parcel work — work it parcel by parcel. A DLRadar subscription opens every Chester County parcel: owner, address and APN, a distress score plus a funding-to-closing path.

Whether Chester County, South Carolina carries heavy distress or only a handful of flagged parcels, every score here is built the same deterministic way — from recorded foreclosures, tax delinquency, liens and lender stress — so Chester County can be compared directly against any county in the country.

Treat Chester County, South Carolina as a ranked list, not a single market: the spread between its strongest and weakest ZIPs is where the acquisition margin actually sits. All of it is deterministic and auditable: Chester County's numbers come from county recorders, the courts, FHFA and FDIC, with nothing interpolated or guessed when a source is sparse.

The ZIP breakdown for Chester County leads with 29730 (29/100), 29742 (28/100), 29014 (27/100), 29055 (27/100), 29706 (27/100), 29714 (27/100). DLRadar also scores 29724, 29729, 29704, 29712, 29031 across the county. Because each ZIP is graded on its own foreclosure, tax and lender record, the county's distress is best read code by code rather than as a single number.

The Chester County score is not a single measure but a composite: foreclosure activity, mortgage and tax-lien stress, and local lender headwind each feed it, which is why understanding the components matters as much as the headline number.