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

Saluda County, SC, South Carolina: 12 ZIP codes scored, Saluda County, SC averaging 25/100 (low, Saluda, SC), from 19 to 32. Saluda County, SC is in its peak phase (Saluda, SC confidence 24/100): Saluda, SC home prices up 3.6% (Saluda, SC) over twelve months. Saluda County, SC lender headwind: 54/100.

Highest-scoring Saluda County, SC ZIPs: 29105 (32/100), 29070 (31/100), 29006 (30/100), 29129 (30/100), 29127 (27/100), 29666 (26/100). Also scored in Saluda County, SC: 29037, 29824, 29832, 29848, 29138, 29166.

Across Saluda County, SC's scored ZIPs: median home value $158,073, household income $57,644, 18.6% vacancy, 21.2% poverty, 80% owner-occupied, median age 41.5.

Saluda County, SC insurance distress 48/100 (#1,157 in the US); FEMA hazard 93/100 for Saluda, SC; 8 federal disaster declarations in Saluda County, SC since 2023 (2 hurricane); Saluda, SC construction distress 50/100.

3 banks with 3 branches lend in Saluda County, SC; Saluda, SC weighted bank stress 64/100, highest 74/100 in Saluda, SC.

Saluda County, SC unemployment 3.8% (Saluda, SC -0.8 pts, six months); 55 new housing units permitted in Saluda County, SC over twelve months, Saluda, SC up 4% from 53; Saluda, SC home prices +18.2% a year (Saluda, SC) over three years.

9,543 housing units in Saluda County, SC; 1,645 Saluda, SC renter households; 38% of Saluda, SC renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 20% (Saluda, SC) half or more.

Saluda County, SC ranks #667 nationally on the opportunity index (Saluda, SC, among all ranked counties); Saluda, SC scores 32.5/100 and Saluda, SC sits #27 inside South Carolina. Saluda, SC is in the watchlist opportunity phase; Saluda, SC's primary driver is vacancy, Saluda, SC second driver bank institutional; Saluda, SC moved down 239 places. 8 short-sale listings across Saluda, SC; 80 days on market observed in Saluda, SC; 17.3% vacancy over 12 Saluda, SC ZIPs.

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

Saluda County, SC has 1 watched bank; 1 Saluda, SC bank sits in an elevated band. Saluda, SC footprints: Security Federal Bank (1 branch, stress 74) in Saluda, SC.

HUD lists 1 assisted multifamily property in Saluda County, SC with 48 units; 48 Saluda, SC units are assisted, 1 Saluda, SC properties under project-based Section 8.

1,873 of the 9,543 housing units in Saluda, SC sit vacant. Saluda County, SC permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Saluda, SC's one-to-four unit structures added 55 units in Saluda County, SC.