ZIP 29048 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

DLRadar grades ZIP 29048 (Orangeburg County, South Carolina) at a moderate 32/100 for overall property distress. What sets it apart are the readings on institutional ownership (72/100), structural risk (71/100), construction/permit lag (30/100). construction/permit lag (30/100) and mortgage stress (29/100) stay muted. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (96/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (93/100), climate & FEMA risk (85/100). Structurally it carries 71/100, against 9/100 of stress already in motion.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 3.8% over the trailing year, and 40% higher over three years (phase confidence 22/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

75% of housing is owner-occupied. 34.9% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 34/100. Around 9% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The ZIP holds roughly 2,826 housing units. About 4,680 people live here, median age 42. Rent burden reaches 36% of tenant households. A median home runs $110,000 here, or 2.3 times local income. At $42,672, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. The vacancy rate is 26.4% — elevated.

Net-net, 29048 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. While 29048 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.

Whether 29048 runs hot or quiet, its 32/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 29048 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Orangeburg County, South Carolina or nationwide. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 29048 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

29048's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. Practically, 29048 works as a screen — verify the reading, drill to the specific parcels driving it, and carry the deal through capital and closing on the platform.