ZIP 29070 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Lexington County, South Carolina · High Vacancy market
ZIP 29070's composite property-distress score is 32/100 - DLRadar classes that as moderate for Lexington County, South Carolina. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — FEMA disaster exposure (95/100), climate & FEMA risk (78/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (62/100). Leading the profile are structural risk (69/100), institutional ownership (65/100), construction/permit lag (56/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (24/100) register low. On the structural side it scores 69/100, with 7/100 of stress already active.
The market reads peak — home values rose 3.6% year on year, and 16% higher over three years, at 24/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.
83% of housing is owner-occupied. The typical home is worth about $197,600 (2.9× income, relatively affordable). Households earn a median $64,833 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Educational attainment sits at 18% bachelor's-or-above. About 15,528 people live here, median age 45. There are about 7,733 housing units across 29070. Vacancy runs 19.6%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. 15.9% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Around 40% of renters are cost-burdened. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 30/100.
Net-net, 29070 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.
Whether 29070 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 29070 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Lexington County, South Carolina or nationwide. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 29070, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.
The 32/100 figure for 29070 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. In workflow terms, 29070 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.
What is driving ZIP 29070’s distress
Delinquency on tax, investor concentration, insurance pressure, NFIP flood, lagging construction, price dislocation and sale velocity — and the 0 individual distressed properties — each with owner, address, APN, its own distress score and an exit read — are in the full report.
29070 at a glance
29070 live: composite distress, market phase, housing detail and lender pressure, identical to the per-property report.
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The complete 29070 distress and acquisition report
Every distressed parcel in 29070 comes with owner and address, APN, its own distress score, bank exposure and an exit-velocity read — plus a one-click path to funding and closing, refreshed continuously nationwide.
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