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

Across Darlington County, South Carolina, DLRadar grades every ZIP for foreclosure, mortgage, tax and bank-stress distress. DLRadar scores 10 ZIPs here, with a mean composite of 23/100. Bank/credit headwind for the county is 45 on a 0–100 scale, a moderate reading. Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 18 to 32 out of 100.

The expansion-phase county posted home values that rose 6.2% over twelve months, now 2.5% off the recent peak, a 49/100-confidence read. Despite the upswing, pockets of distress persist so the laggard ZIPs are the opening.

At +6.2% YoY (49/100 confidence), well-bought parcels resell faster — and a rising tide cleans up those exits. A moderate 45/100 lender headwind means mixed owner- and bank-driven distress.

The sharpest Darlington County readings come from 29506 (32/100), 29501 (30/100), 29161 (29/100), 29101 (24/100), 29593 (20/100), 29079 (19/100) — open any for the parcel detail. The breakdown continues through 29532, 29540, 29550, 29069 and more.

Demographically, Darlington County's tracked footprint come in at median home values around $147,938 (below the national figure), 74% owner-occupancy, a 17.2% poverty rate, household income averaging about $54,623, below the national median, a median age of 43.9, 14.7% of units sitting vacant. Taken together, they frame the volume of pressured sellers and the exit liquidity behind them.

Net of it all, 23/100 over 10 ZIPs means Darlington County rewards parcel-by-parcel work — work it parcel by parcel. A DLRadar subscription opens every Darlington County parcel: owner and contact detail, APN, its own score, the lender behind it and an exit read.

No county is too small to score: Darlington County, South Carolina runs through the same foreclosure, tax, lien and bank-stress model as every major metro, so Darlington County's numbers mean exactly what they mean anywhere else in South Carolina.

Used properly, Darlington County, South Carolina's scores are a triage layer: they rank where motivated sellers cluster so acquisition spend goes to the ZIPs that convert rather than across Darlington County as a whole. Provenance for Darlington County is explicit: recorders and courts for filings, FHFA for prices, FDIC for lenders. No interpolation, no synthetic values.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Darlington County are 29506 (32/100), 29501 (30/100), 29161 (29/100), 29101 (24/100), 29593 (20/100), 29079 (19/100). DLRadar also scores 29532, 29540, 29550, 29069 across the county. Each code carries its own composite built from that ZIP's foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien and lender signals, so two neighboring ZIPs can diverge sharply even inside one county.

DLRadar's composite for Darlington County blends several independent signals — foreclosure and pre-foreclosure filings, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, and the bank-stress headwind of the lenders operating locally — into one 0–100 score per ZIP, so a market can rank high on one axis and low on another.