ZIP 29544 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP code 29544 in Horry County, South Carolina carries a composite property-distress score of 37/100 — a moderate reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. Structural exposure scores 81 and live distress 9 on the 0–100 scale. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (98/100), FEMA disaster exposure (95/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (89/100). Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (81/100), institutional ownership (71/100), construction/permit lag (60/100). 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 (phase confidence 25/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

7,616 residents call 29544 home, typically aged 41. Home values center near $210,000, an affordability ratio of 2.6× — accessible. Around 27% of renters are cost-burdened. The tenure split is 79% owner-occupied to 21% rented. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 26/100. The vacancy rate is 8.8%. The ZIP holds roughly 3,242 housing units. Around 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. At $73,338, median income runs near typical U.S. levels. Roughly 12.0% live below the poverty line.

Net-net, 29544 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. There is no property file for 29544 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable public records.

Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 29544's 37/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Horry County, South Carolina or any ZIP coast to coast. Where the public record is thin for 29544, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.

Each component behind 29544 - foreclosure, mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, lender pullback, structural exposure - is graded on its own before the 37/100 roll-up. For a buyer, 29544 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.