Lee County, SC: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Lee County, SC, South Carolina: 12 ZIP codes scored, Lee County, SC averaging 26/100 (low, Lee, SC), from 19 to 33. Lee County, SC is in its expansion phase (Lee, SC confidence 48/100): Lee, SC home prices up 6.4% (Lee, SC) over twelve months. Lee County, SC lender headwind: 63/100.
Highest-scoring Lee County, SC ZIPs: 29009 (33/100), 29020 (33/100), 29032 (31/100), 29128 (31/100), 29153 (30/100), 29040 (26/100). Also scored in Lee County, SC: 29080, 29104, 29010, 29046, 29550, 29069.
Across Lee County, SC's scored ZIPs: median home value $136,655, household income $54,760, 17.9% vacancy, 19.2% poverty, 77% owner-occupied, median age 41.0.
Lee County, SC insurance distress 40/100 (#1,327 in the US); FEMA hazard 78/100 for Lee, SC; 6 federal disaster declarations in Lee County, SC since 2023; Lee, SC construction distress 66/100.
4 banks with 4 branches lend in Lee County, SC; Lee, SC weighted bank stress 66/100, highest 71/100 in Lee, SC.
Lee County, SC unemployment 6.3% (Lee, SC -1.0 pts, six months); 17 new housing units permitted in Lee County, SC over twelve months, Lee, SC down 23% from 22; Lee, SC home prices +6.4% a year (Lee, SC) over three years.
7,602 housing units in Lee County, SC; 1,671 Lee, SC renter households; 38% of Lee, SC renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 19% (Lee, SC) half or more.
Lee County, SC ranks #208 nationally on the opportunity index (Lee, SC, among all ranked counties); Lee, SC scores 35.7/100 and Lee, SC sits #7 inside South Carolina. Lee, SC is in the peak_opportunity opportunity phase; Lee, SC's primary driver is vacancy, Lee, SC second driver construction; Lee, SC moved up 208 places. 9 short-sale listings across Lee, SC; 122 days on market observed in Lee, SC; 15.5% vacancy over 12 Lee, SC ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Lee County, SC. The non-metro area reading for Lee, SC: 1.4% ninety-plus days late; Lee, SC's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 4.5% (Lee, SC, December 2025 data); South Carolina overall 1.2%.
Lee County, SC has 2 watched banks; 2 Lee, SC banks sit in an elevated band. Lee, SC footprints: First Palmetto Bank (1 branch, stress 66) in Lee, SC; Citizens Bank (1 branch, stress 63) in Lee, SC.
HUD lists 1 assisted multifamily property in Lee County, SC with 32 units; 32 Lee, SC units are assisted, 1 Lee, SC properties under project-based Section 8.
1,251 of the 7,602 housing units in Lee, SC sit vacant. Lee County, SC permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Lee, SC's one-to-four unit structures added 17 units in Lee County, SC.