ZIP 29486 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Scored purely from public records, 29486 (Berkeley County, South Carolina) returns a moderate composite of 35/100. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (97/100), climate & FEMA risk (95/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (90/100). On the structural side it scores 76/100, with 8/100 of stress already active. Its heaviest discrete signals: structural risk (76/100), institutional ownership (72/100), construction/permit lag (41/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (26/100).

The market reads neutral — home values rose 4.2% year on year, and 11% higher over three years (phase confidence 22/100). Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.

At $87,386, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. Around 47% of renters are cost-burdened. A median home runs $367,700 here, or 3.8 times local income. Around 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The poverty rate is 15.3%. Vacancy runs 6.0%. There are about 21,508 housing units across 29486. About 48,964 people live here, median age 36. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 32/100. The tenure split is 77% owner-occupied to 23% rented.

Net-net, 29486 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. There is no property file for 29486 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable public records.

Whether 29486 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 29486 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Berkeley County, South Carolina or nationwide. 29486 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.

29486'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, 29486 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.