ZIP 29527 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP code 29527 in Horry County, South Carolina carries a composite property-distress score of 37/100 — a moderate reading on DLRadar's deterministic distress index. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (98/100), FEMA disaster exposure (97/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (89/100)). Structural exposure scores 82 and live distress 9 on the 0–100 scale. What sets it apart are the readings on structural risk (82/100), institutional ownership (70/100), construction/permit lag (62/100). mortgage stress (30/100) stay muted.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 0.7% over the trailing year, and 9% higher over three years, at 25/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

There are about 11,724 housing units across 29527. Rent burden reaches 33% of tenant households. Roughly 17.3% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. Around 14% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The tenure split is 74% owner-occupied to 26% rented. The typical home is worth about $218,100 (3.7× income, relatively affordable). At $53,078, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 33/100. Vacancy runs 9.9%. About 29,054 people live here, median age 42.

Net-net, 29527 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. No parcel file is published for 29527 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

No ZIP is too small to score: 29527 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 37/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. 29527 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.

The 37/100 figure for 29527 is a composite, not one metric: it rolls up foreclosure and pre-foreclosure activity, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, local lender headwind, and structural risk into a single reading, which is why a ZIP can look calm on price yet score high on distress. Treat 29527 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.