ZIP 29044 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Richland County, South Carolina · High Vacancy market
In Richland County, South Carolina, ZIP 29044 scores 31 of 100 for composite distress, a moderate level on DLRadar's distress index. Environmental exposure also runs high (FEMA disaster exposure (97/100), climate & FEMA risk (93/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (84/100)). Latent structural risk is 67/100 while live distress already moving reads 8/100. The pressure is most legible in institutional ownership (69/100), structural risk (67/100), mortgage stress (26/100). mortgage stress (26/100) and construction/permit lag (11/100) stay muted.
The market reads peak — home values rose 3.6% year on year, and 19% higher over three years (phase confidence 24/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.
The poverty rate is 18.4% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. The ZIP holds roughly 2,639 housing units. Households earn a median $53,709 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. The tenure split is 84% owner-occupied to 16% rented. Rent burden reaches 60% of tenant households. Educational attainment sits at 15% bachelor's-or-above. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 31/100. The vacancy rate is 21.8% — elevated. Population is roughly 4,299 with a median age of 48. Home values center near $135,200, an affordability ratio of 2.1× — accessible.
Net-net, 29044 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. No parcel file is published for 29044 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.
No ZIP is too small to score: 29044 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 31/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Sparse data for 29044 shows as blanks, never estimates, and the score updates on every fresh public filing.
29044's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. For a buyer, 29044 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.
Signal-by-signal read on 29044
Delinquency on tax, investor concentration, insurance pressure, NFIP flood, lagging construction, price dislocation and sale velocity — and the 0 individual distressed properties are listed in full, with owner, address, APN, per-parcel score and exit-velocity read.
Snapshot: 29044 by the numbers
Current distress, phase, housing and lender-pressure figures for 29044, drawn from the same report attached to each property.
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