ZIP 29440 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

On DLRadar's 0-100 public-record scale, ZIP 29440 in Georgetown County, South Carolina comes in at 33, a moderate composite-distress reading. What sets it apart are the readings on structural risk (72/100), institutional ownership (69/100), construction/permit lag (32/100). On the quiet end sit construction/permit lag (32/100) and mortgage stress (29/100). It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (93/100), climate & FEMA risk (91/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (87/100). The latent-versus-live split is 72/100 structural and 9/100 already moving.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 3.8% over the trailing year, and 28% higher over three years (phase confidence 22/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

The ZIP holds roughly 13,767 housing units. Population is roughly 26,419 with a median age of 46. Roughly 16.2% live below the poverty line. Rent burden reaches 37% of tenant households. The tenure split is 82% owner-occupied to 18% rented. Educational attainment sits at 23% bachelor's-or-above. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 30/100. Vacancy runs 22.9%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. At $54,926, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. The typical home is worth about $172,600 (2.9× income, relatively affordable).

On the whole, 29440 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. While 29440 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.

The 29440 read uses the identical public-record model applied coast to coast, which means its 33/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 29440 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Georgetown County, South Carolina. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 29440 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

29440's score blends several independent layers — foreclosure and mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, bank headwind and structural exposure — into one 0–100 number, so understanding the components matters as much as the headline for anyone screening the ZIP. The point of the 29440 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.