ZIP 29550 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Darlington County, South Carolina's ZIP 29550 registers 19/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. Leading the profile are institutional ownership (46/100), structural risk (38/100), mortgage stress (18/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (18/100) and construction/permit lag (1/100) register low. Structurally it carries 38/100, against 5/100 of stress already in motion. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (84/100), climate & FEMA risk (68/100).

Prices here sit in a expansion phase: values rose 6.2% over the trailing year, 2.1% off the recent peak, and 20% higher over three years (phase confidence 48/100). Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.

Median household income is $54,191, below the U.S. median near $78,000. Rent burden reaches 53% of tenant households. Educational attainment sits at 24% bachelor's-or-above. A median home runs $179,300 here, or 3.1 times local income. The tenure split is 73% owner-occupied to 27% rented. Population is roughly 30,198 with a median age of 40. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 34/100. Vacancy runs 15.6%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Roughly 22.0% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. There are about 13,839 housing units across 29550.

Taken together, 29550 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. While 29550 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.

No ZIP is too small to score: 29550 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 19/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 29550 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

29550's score blends several independent layers — foreclosure and mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, bank headwind and structural exposure — into one 0–100 number, so understanding the components matters as much as the headline for anyone screening the ZIP. Treat 29550 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.