ZIP 29070 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

DLRadar grades ZIP 29070 (Lexington County, South Carolina) at a low 29/100 for overall property distress. Environmental exposure also runs high (FEMA disaster exposure (92/100), climate & FEMA risk (78/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (62/100)). Property-level stress concentrates in institutional ownership (63/100), structural risk (63/100), construction/permit lag (34/100). On the quiet end sit construction/permit lag (34/100) and mortgage stress (24/100). Structural risk reads 63/100 against active distress of 7/100.

The peak-phase market in 29070 posted values that rose 3.2% over the year, and 16% higher over three years, at 36/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

The tenure split is 83% owner-occupied to 17% rented. A median home runs $197,600 here, or 2.9 times local income. Households earn a median $64,833 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. About 18% have a four-year degree. Population is roughly 15,528 with a median age of 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. Roughly 15.9% live below the poverty line. Rent burden reaches 40% of tenant households. On demographic stress specifically, 29070 scores 30/100.

On the whole, 29070 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.