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

Dorchester County, South Carolina is scored end-to-end by DLRadar for property distress, drawn only from deterministic public records. On bank and credit headwind, Dorchester County scores 37/100. Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 31 to 36 out of 100. There are 15 scored ZIPs in the county (mean composite 35/100).

Currently neutral, Dorchester County saw prices rise 4.2% year over year (phase confidence 22/100). With pricing topped out, the average masks the outliers leaving the wins in individual deals.

Near the cycle top at +4.2% YoY (22/100 confidence), selectivity rules so the headline market won't hand it over. A moderate 37/100 lender headwind means mixed owner- and bank-driven distress.

The sharpest Dorchester County readings come from 29414 (36/100), 29418 (36/100), 29420 (36/100), 29426 (36/100), 29456 (36/100), 29470 (36/100) — open any for the parcel detail. The breakdown continues through 29472, 29483, 29485, 29437, 29448, 29471, 29477, 29018, 29432 and more.

By the numbers, the Dorchester County ZIPs on file report 11.2% of units sitting vacant, poverty running near 15.3%, typical home values near $240,313, an owner-occupied share of 74%, incomes around $77,743, residents with a median age around 40.5. Taken together, they drive the volume of pressured sellers and the exit liquidity behind them.

With a moderate 35/100 reading over 15 ZIPs, Dorchester County rewards parcel-by-parcel work rather than a blanket buy. Unlock Dorchester County to see every parcel's owner, mailing address, APN, a parcel-level score plus bank exposure and liquidity read.

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

Approach Dorchester County by rank rather than by average — the 35/100 county figure conceals the spread, since the returns live in the top-scoring ZIPs. Every figure traces to a public federal or county source — recorder and court records for foreclosure and liens, FHFA for the price cycle, FDIC for lender stress — and DLRadar leaves a signal blank rather than estimating where Dorchester County data is thin.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Dorchester County are 29414 (36/100), 29418 (36/100), 29420 (36/100), 29426 (36/100), 29456 (36/100), 29470 (36/100). DLRadar also scores 29472, 29483, 29485, 29437, 29448, 29471, 29477, 29018 and more 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.

The Dorchester 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.