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

Lexington County, SC, South Carolina: 18 ZIP codes scored, Lexington County, SC averaging 32/100 (moderate, Lexington, SC), from 27 to 34. Lexington County, SC is in its peak phase (Lexington, SC confidence 24/100): Lexington, SC home prices up 3.6% (Lexington, SC) over twelve months. Lexington County, SC lender headwind: 53/100.

Highest-scoring Lexington County, SC ZIPs: 29033 (34/100), 29054 (34/100), 29072 (34/100), 29073 (34/100), 29123 (34/100), 29169 (34/100). Also scored in Lexington County, SC: 29170, 29172, 29036, 29212, 29112, 29210, 29063, 29070, 29006, 29053.

Across Lexington County, SC's scored ZIPs: median home value $213,383, household income $76,737, 10.1% vacancy, 13.2% poverty, 76% owner-occupied, median age 41.2.

Lexington County, SC insurance distress 87/100 (#163 in the US); FEMA hazard 93/100 for Lexington, SC; 8 federal disaster declarations in Lexington County, SC since 2023 (2 hurricane); 21 Lexington, SC NFIP flood claims, $227K paid; Lexington, SC construction distress 51/100.

19 banks with 59 branches lend in Lexington County, SC; Lexington, SC weighted bank stress 63/100, highest 79/100 in Lexington, SC.

Lexington County, SC unemployment 3.8% (Lexington, SC -1.0 pts, six months); 1,916 new housing units permitted in Lexington County, SC over twelve months, Lexington, SC down 4% from 1,991; Lexington, SC home prices +11.3% a year (Lexington, SC) over three years.

132,916 housing units in Lexington County, SC; 27,960 Lexington, SC renter households; 42% of Lexington, SC renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 20% (Lexington, SC) half or more.

Lexington County, SC ranks #768 nationally on the opportunity index (Lexington, SC, among all ranked counties); Lexington, SC scores 32.1/100 and Lexington, SC sits #29 inside South Carolina. Lexington, SC is in the watchlist opportunity phase; Lexington, SC's primary driver is bank institutional, Lexington, SC second driver construction; Lexington, SC moved up 395 places. 40 short-sale listings across Lexington, SC; 108 days on market observed in Lexington, SC; 7.6% vacancy over 18 Lexington, SC ZIPs.

1.4% of Lexington County, SC mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Lexington, SC's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 3.1% (CFPB county sample). Lexington, SC's ninety-day rate is up 0.4 points on twelve months earlier; the Lexington, SC peak since 2008 was 3.8% in November 2009; South Carolina overall reads 1.2%.

Lexington County, SC has 7 watched banks; 7 Lexington, SC banks sit in an elevated band. Lexington, SC footprints: First Community Bank (6 branches, stress 66) in Lexington, SC; Security Federal Bank (2 branches, stress 74) in Lexington, SC; First Palmetto Bank (2 branches, stress 66) in Lexington, SC.

HUD lists 11 assisted multifamily properties in Lexington County, SC with 1,069 units; 341 Lexington, SC units are assisted, 2 Lexington, SC properties under project-based Section 8.

10,952 of the 132,916 housing units in Lexington, SC sit vacant. Lexington County, SC permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Lexington, SC's one-to-four unit structures added 1,916 units in Lexington County, SC.