ZIP 29485 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

DLRadar grades ZIP 29485 (Dorchester County, South Carolina) at a moderate 35/100 for overall property distress. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (95/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (93/100), FEMA disaster exposure (93/100)). Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (77/100), institutional ownership (70/100), construction/permit lag (43/100). mortgage stress (25/100) stay muted. The split runs 77/100 structural to 8/100 active on the ground.

The neutral-phase market in 29485 posted values that rose 4.2% over the year, and 18% higher over three years (phase confidence 22/100). Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.

The tenure split is 73% owner-occupied to 27% rented. Rent burden reaches 36% of tenant households. A median home runs $341,600 here, or 3.7 times local income. There are about 23,602 housing units across 29485. 58,670 residents call 29485 home, typically aged 37. Median household income is $83,287, near the U.S. median near $78,000. Educational attainment sits at 35% bachelor's-or-above. 9.5% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. The vacancy rate is 6.8%. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 29/100.

Net-net, 29485 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. 29485 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

The number is not local guesswork: 29485's 35/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 29485 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

29485'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. For a buyer, 29485 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.