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

Greenville County, SC, South Carolina: 27 ZIP codes scored, Greenville County, SC averaging 36/100 (moderate, Greenville, SC), from 31 to 37. Greenville County, SC is in its peak phase (Greenville, SC confidence 22/100): Greenville, SC home prices up 3.2% (Greenville, SC) over twelve months. Greenville County, SC lender headwind: 50/100.

Highest-scoring Greenville County, SC ZIPs: 29601 (37/100), 29605 (37/100), 29607 (37/100), 29609 (37/100), 29613 (37/100), 29614 (37/100). Also scored in Greenville County, SC: 29615, 29617, 29650, 29662, 29680, 29681, 29683, 29687, 29690, 29356.

Across Greenville County, SC's scored ZIPs: median home value $273,852, household income $74,006, 10.3% vacancy, 12.2% poverty, 73% owner-occupied, median age 39.3.

Greenville County, SC insurance distress 94/100 (#54 in the US); FEMA hazard 95/100 for Greenville, SC; 12 federal disaster declarations in Greenville County, SC since 2023 (2 hurricane); 177 Greenville, SC NFIP flood claims, $4.7M paid; Greenville, SC construction distress 58/100.

36 banks with 153 branches lend in Greenville County, SC; Greenville, SC weighted bank stress 63/100, highest 96/100 in Greenville, SC.

Greenville County, SC unemployment 3.7% (Greenville, SC -1.1 pts, six months); 5,036 new housing units permitted in Greenville County, SC over twelve months, Greenville, SC down 9% from 5,521; Greenville, SC home prices +11.9% a year (Greenville, SC) over three years.

238,260 housing units in Greenville County, SC; 67,409 Greenville, SC renter households; 48% of Greenville, SC renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 22% (Greenville, SC) half or more.

Greenville County, SC ranks #869 nationally on the opportunity index (Greenville, SC, among all ranked counties); Greenville, SC scores 31.7/100 and Greenville, SC sits #33 inside South Carolina. Greenville, SC is in the watchlist opportunity phase; Greenville, SC's primary driver is bank institutional, Greenville, SC second driver construction; Greenville, SC moved up 330 places. 105 short-sale listings across Greenville, SC; 78 days on market observed in Greenville, SC; 7.2% vacancy over 27 Greenville, SC ZIPs.

0.9% of Greenville County, SC mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Greenville, SC's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 2.2% (CFPB county sample). Greenville, SC's ninety-day rate is up 0.3 points on twelve months earlier; the Greenville, SC peak since 2008 was 3.8% in January 2010; South Carolina overall reads 1.2%.

Greenville County, SC has 12 watched banks; 12 Greenville, SC banks sit in an elevated band. Greenville, SC footprints: Bank Of Travelers Rest (10 branches, stress 61) in Greenville, SC; United Community Bank (9 branches, stress 56) in Greenville, SC; Southern First Bank (4 branches, stress 76) in Greenville, SC.

HUD lists 33 assisted multifamily properties in Greenville County, SC with 2,642 units; 1,365 Greenville, SC units are assisted, 12 Greenville, SC properties under project-based Section 8.

17,695 of the 238,260 housing units in Greenville, SC sit vacant. Greenville County, SC permitted 1,035 multifamily units in twelve months; Greenville, SC's one-to-four unit structures added 4,001 units in Greenville County, SC.