ZIP 29052 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Scored purely from public records, 29052 (Richland County, South Carolina) returns a moderate composite of 31/100. On the structural side it scores 66/100, with 8/100 of stress already active. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — FEMA disaster exposure (95/100), climate & FEMA risk (93/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (82/100). Its heaviest discrete signals: institutional ownership (69/100), structural risk (66/100), mortgage stress (26/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (26/100) and construction/permit lag (12/100).

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 public 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.