ZIP 29526 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP 29526's composite property-distress score is 37/100 - DLRadar classes that as moderate for Horry County, South Carolina. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (98/100), FEMA disaster exposure (95/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (89/100). The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (81/100), institutional ownership (71/100), construction/permit lag (60/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (30/100). Structurally it carries 81/100, against 9/100 of stress already in motion.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 0.7% over the trailing year, and 15% higher over three years, at 25/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

A median home runs $253,100 here, or 3.5 times local income. Vacancy runs 10.7%. Population is roughly 51,176 with a median age of 41. About 23% have a four-year degree. At $66,490, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. On demographic stress specifically, 29526 scores 32/100. Owners hold 77% of homes, renters 23%. The poverty rate is 15.5%. The ZIP holds roughly 21,210 housing units. Rent burden reaches 45% of tenant households.

Overall, 29526 shows a mixed profile — neither uniformly stressed nor insulated — so opportunity is property-specific. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.

Big metro or rural, 29526 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 37/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Horry County, South Carolina and the nation. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 29526 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

Behind 29526's composite sit distinct signals (foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender and structural), each scored on its own before rolling up, so two ZIPs with the same total can describe very different situations on the ground. The point of the 29526 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.