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

Marion County, SC, South Carolina: 8 ZIP codes scored, Marion County, SC averaging 31/100 (moderate, Marion, SC), from 30 to 36. Marion County, SC is in its expansion phase (Marion, SC confidence 48/100): Marion, SC home prices up 6.4% (Marion, SC) over twelve months. Marion County, SC lender headwind: 47/100.

Highest-scoring Marion County, SC ZIPs: 29581 (36/100), 29565 (32/100), 29592 (31/100), 29519 (30/100), 29546 (30/100), 29571 (30/100). Also scored in Marion County, SC: 29574, 29589.

Across Marion County, SC's scored ZIPs: median home value $83,433, household income $37,649, 16.6% vacancy, 30.4% poverty, 56% owner-occupied, median age 42.0.

Marion County, SC insurance distress 79/100 (#374 in the US); FEMA hazard 78/100 for Marion, SC; 6 federal disaster declarations in Marion County, SC since 2023; 21 Marion, SC NFIP flood claims, $371K paid; Marion, SC construction distress 53/100.

5 banks with 10 branches lend in Marion County, SC; Marion, SC weighted bank stress 60/100, highest 71/100 in Marion, SC.

Marion County, SC unemployment 6.5% (Marion, SC -1.5 pts, six months); 71 new housing units permitted in Marion County, SC over twelve months, Marion, SC down 3% from 73; Marion, SC home prices +10.9% a year (Marion, SC) over three years.

14,505 housing units in Marion County, SC; 4,459 Marion, SC renter households; 24% of Marion, SC renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 11% (Marion, SC) half or more.

Marion County, SC ranks #245 nationally on the opportunity index (Marion, SC, among all ranked counties); Marion, SC scores 35.4/100 and Marion, SC sits #10 inside South Carolina. Marion, SC is in the peak_opportunity opportunity phase; Marion, SC's primary driver is vacancy, Marion, SC second driver bank institutional; Marion, SC moved up 129 places. 2 short-sale listings across Marion, SC; 94 days on market observed in Marion, SC; 18.1% vacancy over 8 Marion, SC ZIPs.

No CFPB county sample covers Marion County, SC. The non-metro area reading for Marion, SC: 1.4% ninety-plus days late; Marion, SC's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 4.5% (Marion, SC, December 2025 data); South Carolina overall 1.2%.

Marion County, SC has 3 watched banks; 3 Marion, SC banks sit in an elevated band. Marion, SC footprints: Anderson Brothers Bank (5 branches, stress 65) in Marion, SC; Carolina Bank&Trust Co (1 branch, stress 43) in Marion, SC; Pee Dee Federal Savings Bank (1 branch, stress 33) in Marion, SC.

HUD lists 3 assisted multifamily properties in Marion County, SC with 80 units; 79 Marion, SC units are assisted.

2,328 of the 14,505 housing units in Marion, SC sit vacant. Marion County, SC permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Marion, SC's one-to-four unit structures added 71 units in Marion County, SC.