ZIP 29437 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP code 29437 in Dorchester County, South Carolina carries a composite property-distress score of 34/100 — a moderate reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. The sharpest non-environmental signals are structural risk (75/100), institutional ownership (71/100), construction/permit lag (39/100). On the quiet end sit construction/permit lag (39/100) and mortgage stress (25/100). It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (94/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (93/100), FEMA disaster exposure (93/100). Structurally it carries 75/100, against 8/100 of stress already in motion.

The market reads neutral — home values rose 4.2% year on year, and 7% higher over three years, at 22/100 phase confidence. Even climbing markets leave specific parcels in distress; the scoring isolates them.

Households earn a median $56,086 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. 14.0% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. The tenure split is 91% owner-occupied to 9% rented. Around 40% of renters are cost-burdened. Population is roughly 2,287 with a median age of 42. The ZIP holds roughly 1,027 housing units. Around 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. On demographic stress specifically, 29437 scores 29/100. The typical home is worth about $172,900 (3.2× income, relatively affordable). Vacancy runs 14.5%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal.

Net-net, 29437 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.

The 29437 read uses the identical public-record model applied coast to coast, which means its 34/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 29437 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Dorchester County, South Carolina. Where the public record is thin for 29437, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.

The 34/100 figure for 29437 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. Practically, 29437 works as a screen — verify the reading, drill to the specific parcels driving it, and carry the deal through capital and closing on the platform.