ZIP 29201 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Richland County, South Carolina · High Vacancy market
Composite property distress in 29201 (Richland County, South Carolina) lands at 31/100 — moderate on DLRadar's public-record scoring. The latent-versus-live split is 66/100 structural and 8/100 already moving. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: 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). mortgage stress (26/100) and construction/permit lag (12/100) stay muted.
The peak-phase market in 29201 posted values that rose 3.6% over the year, and 22% higher over three years, at 24/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.
About 22,955 people live here, median age 23. The ZIP holds roughly 13,441 housing units. Around 56% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. At $34,327, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. 28% of housing is owner-occupied. Roughly 47.8% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. Home values center near $255,800, an affordability ratio of 6.9×. Around 64% of renters are cost-burdened. The vacancy rate is 24.4% — elevated. On demographic stress specifically, 29201 scores 54/100.
Net-net, 29201 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.
No ZIP is too small to score: 29201 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. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 29201, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.
29201's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. For an operator, 29201 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.
What is driving ZIP 29201’s distress
Tax delinquency, institutional ownership, insurance pressure, NFIP/flood, construction lag, price dislocation and auction velocity — plus the 0 individual distressed properties are listed in full, with owner, address, APN, per-parcel score and exit-velocity read.
The 29201 distress snapshot
Real-time distress, cycle phase, housing and bank-stress readings for 29201, the same set carried on every parcel.
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The complete 29201 distress and acquisition report
The full 29201 file lists each distressed parcel with owner, address, APN, per-property score, bank exposure and exit-velocity read, and carries it straight through funding and closing. Refreshed continuously.
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