ZIP 29118 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP code 29118 in Orangeburg County, South Carolina carries a composite property-distress score of 32/100 — a moderate reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. The pressure is most legible in institutional ownership (72/100), structural risk (70/100), construction/permit lag (34/100). construction/permit lag (34/100) and mortgage stress (29/100) stay muted. Environmental exposure also runs high (FEMA disaster exposure (98/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (86/100), climate & FEMA risk (80/100)). Latent structural risk is 70/100 while live distress already moving reads 9/100.

The peak-phase market in 29118 posted values that rose 3.8% over the year, and 21% higher over three years (phase confidence 22/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

At $57,704, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. Owners hold 65% of homes, renters 35%. On demographic stress specifically, 29118 scores 27/100. The typical home is worth about $176,600 (2.8× income, relatively affordable). Roughly 15.5% live below the poverty line. Population is roughly 15,676 with a median age of 41. Rent burden reaches 25% of tenant households. The vacancy rate is 8.7%. Around 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The ZIP holds roughly 6,880 housing units.

On balance 29118 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. While 29118 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.

No ZIP is too small to score: 29118 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 32/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Sparse data for 29118 shows as blanks, never estimates, and the score updates on every fresh public filing.

The 32/100 figure for 29118 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. For a buyer, 29118 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.