ZIP 29630 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Pickens County, South Carolina's ZIP 29630 registers 36/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (95/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (90/100), climate & FEMA risk (79/100). The most distinctive pressure shows up in construction/permit lag (81/100), structural risk (81/100), institutional ownership (71/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (27/100) register low. Structural exposure scores 81 and live distress 8 on the 0–100 scale.

The market reads peak — home values rose 4.0% year on year, and 22% higher over three years, at 30/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

About 15,497 people live here, median age 30. Vacancy runs 10.9%. Educational attainment sits at 38% bachelor's-or-above. Median household income is $53,879, below the U.S. median near $78,000. Home values center near $234,500, an affordability ratio of 4.1×. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 35/100. Owners hold 47% of homes, renters 53%. Rent burden reaches 39% of tenant households. There are about 7,937 housing units across 29630. 21.3% of residents fall below the poverty threshold.

Net-net, 29630 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.