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

Kershaw County, SC, South Carolina: 13 ZIP codes scored, Kershaw County, SC averaging 30/100 (moderate, Kershaw, SC), from 20 to 34. Kershaw County, SC is in its peak phase (Kershaw, SC confidence 24/100): Kershaw, SC home prices up 3.6% (Kershaw, SC) over twelve months. Kershaw County, SC lender headwind: 69/100.

Highest-scoring Kershaw County, SC ZIPs: 29074 (34/100), 29175 (34/100), 29009 (33/100), 29020 (33/100), 29067 (33/100), 29058 (32/100). Also scored in Kershaw County, SC: 29032, 29078, 29045, 29128, 29130, 29718, 29010.

Across Kershaw County, SC's scored ZIPs: median home value $185,383, household income $62,889, 17.4% vacancy, 15.5% poverty, 81% owner-occupied, median age 45.5.

Kershaw County, SC insurance distress 89/100 (#133 in the US); FEMA hazard 93/100 for Kershaw, SC; 8 federal disaster declarations in Kershaw County, SC since 2023 (2 hurricane); 34 Kershaw, SC NFIP flood claims, $419K paid; Kershaw, SC construction distress 71/100.

7 banks with 11 branches lend in Kershaw County, SC; Kershaw, SC weighted bank stress 67/100, highest 71/100 in Kershaw, SC.

Kershaw County, SC unemployment 4.4% (Kershaw, SC -0.9 pts, six months); 346 new housing units permitted in Kershaw County, SC over twelve months, Kershaw, SC down 32% from 507; Kershaw, SC home prices +10.8% a year (Kershaw, SC) over three years.

30,134 housing units in Kershaw County, SC; 4,748 Kershaw, SC renter households; 44% of Kershaw, SC renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 23% (Kershaw, SC) half or more.

Kershaw County, SC ranks #412 nationally on the opportunity index (Kershaw, SC, among all ranked counties); Kershaw, SC scores 33.9/100 and Kershaw, SC sits #19 inside South Carolina. Kershaw, SC is in the peak_opportunity opportunity phase; Kershaw, SC's primary driver is bank institutional, Kershaw, SC second driver vacancy; Kershaw, SC moved up 46 places. 15 short-sale listings across Kershaw, SC; 95 days on market observed in Kershaw, SC; 12.0% vacancy over 13 Kershaw, SC ZIPs.

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

Kershaw County, SC has 3 watched banks; 3 Kershaw, SC banks sit in an elevated band. Kershaw, SC footprints: First Palmetto Bank (4 branches, stress 66) in Kershaw, SC; First Community Bank (1 branch, stress 66) in Kershaw, SC; Citizens Bank (1 branch, stress 63) in Kershaw, SC.

HUD lists 3 assisted multifamily properties in Kershaw County, SC with 104 units; 26 Kershaw, SC units are assisted.

3,237 of the 30,134 housing units in Kershaw, SC sit vacant. Kershaw County, SC permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Kershaw, SC's one-to-four unit structures added 346 units in Kershaw County, SC.