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

Dorchester County, SC, South Carolina: 15 ZIP codes scored, Dorchester County, SC averaging 34/100 (moderate, Dorchester, SC), from 30 to 36. Dorchester County, SC is in its neutral phase (Dorchester, SC confidence 22/100): Dorchester, SC home prices up 4.2% (Dorchester, SC) over twelve months. Dorchester County, SC lender headwind: 37/100.

Highest-scoring Dorchester County, SC ZIPs: 29414 (36/100), 29418 (36/100), 29426 (36/100), 29456 (36/100), 29470 (36/100), 29420 (35/100). Also scored in Dorchester County, SC: 29472, 29485, 29018, 29437, 29448, 29471, 29477, 29483, 29432.

Across Dorchester County, SC's scored ZIPs: median home value $240,313, household income $77,743, 11.2% vacancy, 15.3% poverty, 74% owner-occupied, median age 40.5.

Dorchester County, SC insurance distress 91/100 (#88 in the US); FEMA hazard 90/100 for Dorchester, SC; 8 federal disaster declarations in Dorchester County, SC since 2023; 74 Dorchester, SC NFIP flood claims, $3.1M paid; Dorchester, SC construction distress 39/100.

20 banks with 37 branches lend in Dorchester County, SC; Dorchester, SC weighted bank stress 60/100, highest 71/100 in Dorchester, SC.

Dorchester County, SC unemployment 3.9% (Dorchester, SC -0.9 pts, six months); 1,655 new housing units permitted in Dorchester County, SC over twelve months, Dorchester, SC up 19% from 1,395; Dorchester, SC home prices +11.8% a year (Dorchester, SC) over three years.

67,865 housing units in Dorchester County, SC; 15,131 Dorchester, SC renter households; 51% of Dorchester, SC renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 22% (Dorchester, SC) half or more.

Dorchester County, SC ranks #1,214 nationally on the opportunity index (Dorchester, SC, among all ranked counties); Dorchester, SC scores 30.4/100 and Dorchester, SC sits #39 inside South Carolina. Dorchester, SC is in the watchlist opportunity phase; Dorchester, SC's primary driver is bank institutional, Dorchester, SC second driver construction; Dorchester, SC moved up 618 places. 100 short-sale listings across Dorchester, SC; 78 days on market observed in Dorchester, SC; 7.5% vacancy over 15 Dorchester, SC ZIPs.

1.4% of Dorchester County, SC mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Dorchester, SC's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 3.3% (CFPB county sample). Dorchester, SC's ninety-day rate is up 0.4 points on twelve months earlier; the Dorchester, SC peak since 2008 was 5.2% in February 2010; South Carolina overall reads 1.2%.

Dorchester County, SC has 7 watched banks; 7 Dorchester, SC banks sit in an elevated band. Dorchester, SC footprints: First Nb Of South Carolina (4 branches, stress 62) in Dorchester, SC; First Capital Bank (1 branch, stress 70) in Dorchester, SC; First Palmetto Bank (1 branch, stress 66) in Dorchester, SC.

HUD lists 10 assisted multifamily properties in Dorchester County, SC with 1,508 units; 335 Dorchester, SC units are assisted, 4 Dorchester, SC properties under project-based Section 8.

4,686 of the 67,865 housing units in Dorchester, SC sit vacant. Dorchester County, SC permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Dorchester, SC's one-to-four unit structures added 1,655 units in Dorchester County, SC.