ZIP 29472 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Dorchester County, South Carolina's ZIP 29472 registers 35/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. Structural risk reads 76/100 against active distress of 8/100. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — FEMA disaster exposure (95/100), climate & FEMA risk (94/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (92/100). The pressure is most legible in structural risk (76/100), institutional ownership (71/100), construction/permit lag (40/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (26/100) register low.

Prices here sit in a neutral phase: values rose 4.4% over the trailing year, and 12% higher over three years (phase confidence 24/100). Even climbing markets leave specific parcels in distress; the scoring isolates them.

85% of housing is owner-occupied. 10.8% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Vacancy runs 11.6%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 28/100. A median home runs $263,100 here, or 3.4 times local income. Rent burden reaches 26% of tenant households. Population is roughly 11,531 with a median age of 41. At $73,207, median income runs near typical U.S. levels. The ZIP holds roughly 4,331 housing units. Around 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher.

Net-net, 29472 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.

Whether 29472 runs hot or quiet, its 35/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 29472 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Dorchester County, South Carolina or nationwide. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 29472 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

The 35/100 for 29472 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. For a buyer, 29472 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.