ZIP 29525 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

In Marlboro County, South Carolina, ZIP 29525 scores 27 of 100 for composite distress, a low level on DLRadar's public-record index. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (84/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (76/100). On the structural side it scores 60/100, with 7/100 of stress already active. Property-level stress concentrates in institutional ownership (62/100), structural risk (60/100), construction/permit lag (52/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (24/100) register low.

Prices here sit in a expansion phase: values rose 6.4% over the trailing year (phase confidence 48/100). Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

The ZIP holds roughly 926 housing units. Around 72% of renters are cost-burdened. Educational attainment sits at 10% bachelor's-or-above. Home values center near $70,200, an affordability ratio of 1.8× — accessible. The tenure split is 74% owner-occupied to 26% rented. 1,822 residents call 29525 home, typically aged 50. The poverty rate is 24.0% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 35/100. Median household income is $29,625, below the U.S. median near $78,000. The vacancy rate is 16.3% — elevated.

Net-net, 29525 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. While 29525 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.

The 29525 read uses the identical public-record model applied coast to coast, which means its 27/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 29525 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Marlboro County, South Carolina. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 29525, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

29525's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. For a buyer, 29525 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.