ZIP 29009 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

DLRadar grades ZIP 29009 (Kershaw County, South Carolina) at a moderate 32/100 for overall property distress. Structural risk reads 72/100 against active distress of 8/100. The most distinctive pressure shows up in construction/permit lag (72/100), structural risk (72/100), institutional ownership (67/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (25/100). It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (94/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (75/100), climate & FEMA risk (66/100).

The market reads peak — home values rose 3.9% year on year, at 24/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

83% of housing is owner-occupied. The typical home is worth about $97,800 (1.5× income, relatively affordable). Around 60% of renters are cost-burdened. On demographic stress specifically, 29009 scores 29/100. About 2,396 people live here, median age 42. The vacancy rate is 13.5% — elevated. Households earn a median $62,833 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. There are about 1,157 housing units across 29009. The poverty rate is 14.1%. Around 15% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher.

Taken together, 29009 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. Parcel-level detail for 29009 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced to public records.

The number is not local guesswork: 29009's 32/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. 29009 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.

Behind 29009's composite sit distinct signals (foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender and structural), each scored on its own before rolling up, so two ZIPs with the same total can describe very different situations on the ground. For a buyer, 29009 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.