ZIP 29685 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Pickens County, South Carolina · High Vacancy market
In Pickens County, South Carolina, ZIP 29685 scores 36 of 100 for composite distress, a moderate level on DLRadar's public-record index. Structurally it carries 80/100, against 8/100 of stress already in motion. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (98/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (91/100), climate & FEMA risk (78/100). Its heaviest discrete signals: structural risk (80/100), construction/permit lag (74/100), institutional ownership (73/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (27/100) register low.
The market reads peak — home values rose 3.2% year on year, at 22/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.
Population is roughly 2,046 with a median age of 59. Home values center near $828,500, an affordability ratio of 2.9× — accessible. There are about 1,490 housing units across 29685. Households earn a median $124,432 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. The tenure split is 98% owner-occupied to 2% rented. About 40% have a four-year degree. Vacancy runs 38.2%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Around 0% of renters are cost-burdened. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 21/100. The poverty rate is 11.3%.
Net-net, 29685 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.
Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 29685's 36/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Pickens County, South Carolina or any ZIP coast to coast. 29685 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.
Each component behind 29685 - foreclosure, mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, lender pullback, structural exposure - is graded on its own before the 36/100 roll-up. Treat 29685 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.
What is driving ZIP 29685’s distress
Tax delinquency, institutional ownership, insurance pressure, NFIP/flood, construction lag, price dislocation and auction velocity — plus the 0 individual distressed properties are broken out by owner, address, APN, per-property score and exit read inside DLRadar.
The 29685 distress snapshot
A live read on 29685: distress, market phase, housing and bank pressure — identical to the report behind every parcel.
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The full 29685 file lists each distressed parcel with owner, address, APN, per-property score, bank exposure and exit-velocity read, and carries it straight through funding and closing. Refreshed continuously.
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