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

Horry County, South Carolina sits inside DLRadar's nationwide distress index, built entirely from public records. The county spans 16 scored ZIP codes, averaging 37/100 composite distress. The county's ZIP scores run from 36 up to 37/100. Bank/credit headwind for the county is 49 on a 0–100 scale, a moderate reading.

Currently peak, Horry County saw prices rise 0.7% year over year (phase confidence 25/100). This late in the run, the opportunity narrows with opportunity concentrated by ZIP.

At +0.7% YoY and 25/100 confidence, the wins are surgical — target the few ZIPs carrying distress. Mid-range bank stress at 49/100 points to mixed owner- and bank-driven distress.

By composite, 29511 (37/100), 29526 (37/100), 29527 (37/100), 29544 (37/100), 29545 (37/100), 29566 (37/100) top the county — tap any ZIP to go deeper. Further scored ZIPs: 29568, 29569, 29572, 29575, 29577, 29579, 29582, 29588, 29576, 29581.

Demographically, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Horry County run a 15.2% poverty rate, an owner-occupied share of 76%, typical home values near $270,106, household income averaging about $64,724, below the national median, a median age of 47.2, vacancy near 23.4%. These fundamentals shape where pressure builds and how liquid the exit will be.

All in at 37/100 over 16 ZIPs, distress here is parcel-specific and not a county-wide play. A DLRadar subscription opens every Horry County parcel: owner, address and APN, scoring, lienholder detail and an estimated exit speed.

The distress read for Horry County, South Carolina is refreshed as new public records post and uses the same methodology coast to coast, so Horry County stays directly comparable to any other market you track.

Read Horry County, South Carolina as a heat map for effort — the county's moderate composite of 37/100 hides wide ZIP-level variation, and the return comes from chasing the hot ZIPs, not the average. Provenance for Horry County is explicit: recorders and courts for filings, FHFA for prices, FDIC for lenders. No interpolation, no synthetic values.

Drilling in, Horry County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 29511 (37/100), 29526 (37/100), 29527 (37/100), 29544 (37/100), 29545 (37/100), 29566 (37/100). DLRadar also scores 29568, 29569, 29572, 29575, 29577, 29579, 29582, 29588 and more across the county. Every one of these is scored independently — a ZIP's composite reflects its own recorded distress, which is why the county average alone hides where the real pressure sits.

Under Horry County's headline composite sit distinct layers — recorded foreclosures, tax and lien delinquency, mortgage stress and bank headwind — each scored separately before they roll up, so the same total can describe very different markets.