ZIP 29052 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Scored on a fixed 0-100 scale, 29052 (Richland County, South Carolina) returns a moderate composite of 31/100. On the structural side it scores 67/100, with 8/100 of stress already active. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — FEMA disaster exposure (97/100), climate & FEMA risk (93/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (84/100). Its heaviest discrete signals: institutional ownership (69/100), structural risk (67/100), mortgage stress (26/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (26/100) and construction/permit lag (11/100).

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 3.6% over the trailing year (phase confidence 24/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

2,057 residents call 29052 home, typically aged 43. Median household income is $53,571, below the U.S. median near $78,000. Vacancy runs 9.8%. Owners hold 88% of homes, renters 12%. Around 48% of renters are cost-burdened. The ZIP holds roughly 855 housing units. Home values center near $83,900, an affordability ratio of 1.4× — accessible. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 27/100. 22.6% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Around 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher.

On the whole, 29052 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.

No ZIP is too small to score: 29052 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. Where the record is thin for 29052, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.

The 31/100 figure for 29052 is a composite, not one metric: it rolls up foreclosure and pre-foreclosure activity, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, local lender headwind, and structural risk into a single reading, which is why a ZIP can look calm on price yet score high on distress. The point of the 29052 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.