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

Fairfield County, SC, South Carolina: 9 ZIP codes scored, Fairfield County, SC averaging 27/100 (low, Fairfield, SC), from 21 to 30. Fairfield County, SC is in its peak phase (Fairfield, SC confidence 24/100): Fairfield, SC home prices up 3.6% (Fairfield, SC) over twelve months. Fairfield County, SC lender headwind: 68/100.

Highest-scoring Fairfield County, SC ZIPs: 29016 (30/100), 29045 (30/100), 29015 (29/100), 29065 (29/100), 29130 (28/100), 29014 (27/100). Also scored in Fairfield County, SC: 29055, 29180, 29031.

Across Fairfield County, SC's scored ZIPs: median home value $176,722, household income $78,455, 16.7% vacancy, 13.3% poverty, 84% owner-occupied, median age 43.8.

Fairfield County, SC insurance distress 88/100 (#144 in the US); FEMA hazard 93/100 for Fairfield, SC; 8 federal disaster declarations in Fairfield County, SC since 2023 (2 hurricane); 20 Fairfield, SC NFIP flood claims, $292K paid; Fairfield, SC construction distress 62/100.

1 bank with 1 branch lend in Fairfield County, SC; Fairfield, SC weighted bank stress 71/100.

Fairfield County, SC unemployment 5.2% (Fairfield, SC -1.2 pts, six months); 65 new housing units permitted in Fairfield County, SC over twelve months, Fairfield, SC down 26% from 88; Fairfield, SC home prices +9.5% a year (Fairfield, SC) over three years.

11,003 housing units in Fairfield County, SC; 2,105 Fairfield, SC renter households; 44% of Fairfield, SC renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 21% (Fairfield, SC) half or more.

Fairfield County, SC ranks #468 nationally on the opportunity index (Fairfield, SC, among all ranked counties); Fairfield, SC scores 33.6/100 and Fairfield, SC sits #20 inside South Carolina. Fairfield, SC is in the overheated opportunity phase; Fairfield, SC's primary driver is vacancy, Fairfield, SC second driver bank institutional; Fairfield, SC moved down 184 places. 19 short-sale listings across Fairfield, SC; 92 days on market observed in Fairfield, SC; 18.4% vacancy over 9 Fairfield, SC ZIPs.

No CFPB county sample covers Fairfield County, SC. The metro area reading for Fairfield, SC (Columbia, SC): 1.5% ninety-plus days late; Fairfield, SC's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 3.9% (Fairfield, SC, December 2025 data); South Carolina overall 1.2%.

HUD lists 1 assisted multifamily property in Fairfield County, SC with 66 units; 66 Fairfield, SC units are assisted, 1 Fairfield, SC properties under project-based Section 8.

2,073 of the 11,003 housing units in Fairfield, SC sit vacant. Fairfield County, SC permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Fairfield, SC's one-to-four unit structures added 65 units in Fairfield County, SC.