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

Union County, SC, South Carolina: 9 ZIP codes scored, Union County, SC averaging 22/100 (low, Union, SC), from 18 to 31. Union County, SC is in its peak phase (Union, SC confidence 27/100): Union, SC home prices up 1.7% (Union, SC) over twelve months. Union County, SC lender headwind: 67/100.

Highest-scoring Union County, SC ZIPs: 29374 (31/100), 29335 (29/100), 29372 (26/100), 29178 (22/100), 29031 (21/100), 29321 (18/100). Also scored in Union County, SC: 29353, 29364, 29379.

Across Union County, SC's scored ZIPs: median home value $105,511, household income $48,617, 14.6% vacancy, 18.0% poverty, 79% owner-occupied, median age 45.0.

Union County, SC insurance distress 49/100 (#1,129 in the US); FEMA hazard 95/100 for Union, SC; 10 federal disaster declarations in Union County, SC since 2023 (2 hurricane); Union, SC construction distress 3/100.

3 banks with 5 branches lend in Union County, SC; Union, SC weighted bank stress 68/100, highest 79/100 in Union, SC.

Union County, SC unemployment 6.3% (Union, SC -1.0 pts, six months); 264 new housing units permitted in Union County, SC over twelve months, Union, SC up 257% from 74; Union, SC home prices +13.9% a year (Union, SC) over three years.

13,527 housing units in Union County, SC; 3,607 Union, SC renter households; 36% of Union, SC renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 15% (Union, SC) half or more.

Union County, SC ranks #1,501 nationally on the opportunity index (Union, SC, among all ranked counties); Union, SC scores 29.4/100 and Union, SC sits #43 inside South Carolina. Union, SC is in the early_signal opportunity phase; Union, SC's primary driver is vacancy, Union, SC second driver bank institutional; Union, SC moved up 593 places. 3 short-sale listings across Union, SC; 42 days on market observed in Union, SC; 12.9% vacancy over 9 Union, SC ZIPs.

No CFPB county sample covers Union County, SC. The metro area reading for Union, SC (Spartanburg, SC): 1.5% ninety-plus days late; Union, SC's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 3.2% (Union, SC, December 2025 data); South Carolina overall 1.2%.

Union County, SC has 1 watched bank; 1 Union, SC bank sits in an elevated band. Union, SC footprints: Arthur State Bank (3 branches, stress 79) in Union, SC.

HUD lists 1 assisted multifamily property in Union County, SC with 3 units; 3 Union, SC units are assisted.

1,916 of the 13,527 housing units in Union, SC sit vacant. Union County, SC permitted 171 multifamily units in twelve months; Union, SC's one-to-four unit structures added 93 units in Union County, SC.