ZIP 29042 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

On DLRadar's 0-100 distress scale, ZIP 29042 in Bamberg County, South Carolina comes in at 27, a low composite-distress reading. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — FEMA disaster exposure (96/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (92/100). Latent structural risk is 62/100 while live distress already moving reads 9/100. The sharpest non-environmental signals are institutional ownership (72/100), structural risk (62/100), construction/permit lag (50/100). mortgage stress (31/100) stay muted.

Prices here sit in a expansion phase: values rose 6.4% over the trailing year (phase confidence 48/100). Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.

At $42,350, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. The poverty rate is 19.3% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. The vacancy rate is 39.6% — elevated. Around 51% of renters are cost-burdened. Home values center near $88,200, an affordability ratio of 2.2× — accessible. About 4,761 people live here, median age 34. Educational attainment sits at 19% bachelor's-or-above. 65% of housing is owner-occupied. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 35/100. The ZIP holds roughly 2,227 housing units.

On the whole, 29042 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. There is no property file for 29042 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable records.

Big metro or rural, 29042 runs through one identical scoring model, so its 27/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Bamberg County, South Carolina and the nation. Sparse data for 29042 shows as blanks, never estimates, and the score updates on every fresh public filing.

Behind 29042'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. The point of the 29042 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.