Pickens County, SC: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Pickens County, SC, South Carolina: 15 ZIP codes scored, Pickens County, SC averaging 33/100 (moderate, Pickens, SC), from 31 to 36. Pickens County, SC is in its peak phase (Pickens, SC confidence 22/100): Pickens, SC home prices up 3.2% (Pickens, SC) over twelve months. Pickens County, SC lender headwind: 55/100.
Highest-scoring Pickens County, SC ZIPs: 29611 (36/100), 29635 (36/100), 29661 (36/100), 29630 (33/100), 29631 (33/100), 29634 (33/100). Also scored in Pickens County, SC: 29640, 29642, 29657, 29667, 29670, 29671, 29682, 29685, 29678.
Across Pickens County, SC's scored ZIPs: median home value $281,000, household income $60,367, 20.4% vacancy, 16.8% poverty, 75% owner-occupied, median age 40.0.
Pickens County, SC insurance distress 94/100 (#55 in the US); FEMA hazard 96/100 for Pickens, SC; 14 federal disaster declarations in Pickens County, SC since 2023 (2 hurricane); 13 Pickens, SC NFIP flood claims, $1.0M paid; Pickens, SC construction distress 52/100.
15 banks with 28 branches lend in Pickens County, SC; Pickens, SC weighted bank stress 64/100, highest 85/100 in Pickens, SC.
Pickens County, SC unemployment 4.1% (Pickens, SC -1.1 pts, six months); 998 new housing units permitted in Pickens County, SC over twelve months, Pickens, SC down 3% from 1,027; Pickens, SC home prices +11.6% a year (Pickens, SC) over three years.
58,677 housing units in Pickens County, SC; 15,154 Pickens, SC renter households; 49% of Pickens, SC renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 28% (Pickens, SC) half or more.
Pickens County, SC ranks #768 nationally on the opportunity index (Pickens, SC, among all ranked counties); Pickens, SC scores 32.1/100 and Pickens, SC sits #29 inside South Carolina. Pickens, SC is in the watchlist opportunity phase; Pickens, SC's primary driver is vacancy, Pickens, SC second driver bank institutional; Pickens, SC moved down 29 places. 12 short-sale listings across Pickens, SC; 72 days on market observed in Pickens, SC; 15.0% vacancy over 15 Pickens, SC ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Pickens County, SC. The metro area reading for Pickens, SC (Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC): 1.1% ninety-plus days late; Pickens, SC's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 2.7% (Pickens, SC, December 2025 data); South Carolina overall 1.2%.
Pickens County, SC has 5 watched banks; 5 Pickens, SC banks sit in an elevated band. Pickens, SC footprints: Blue Ridge Bank (2 branches, stress 85) in Pickens, SC; Pickens Savings&Loan Assn Fa (2 branches, stress 78) in Pickens, SC; Oconee Fs&La (1 branch, stress 67) in Pickens, SC.
HUD lists 10 assisted multifamily properties in Pickens County, SC with 618 units; 298 Pickens, SC units are assisted, 5 Pickens, SC properties under project-based Section 8.
6,263 of the 58,677 housing units in Pickens, SC sit vacant. Pickens County, SC permitted 232 multifamily units in twelve months; Pickens, SC's one-to-four unit structures added 766 units in Pickens County, SC.