ZIP 29702 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Cherokee County, South Carolina's ZIP 29702 registers 29/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (92/100), climate & FEMA risk (71/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (60/100). The most distinctive pressure shows up in institutional ownership (64/100), structural risk (64/100), construction/permit lag (47/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (24/100) register low. Structural risk reads 64/100 against active distress of 7/100.

The market reads peak — home values rose 3.6% year on year, and 14% higher over three years, at 28/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

About 9,855 people live here, median age 41. There are about 4,280 housing units across 29702. Vacancy runs 13.9%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Owners hold 74% of homes, renters 26%. Educational attainment sits at 15% bachelor's-or-above. Rent burden reaches 40% of tenant households. Home values center near $126,600, an affordability ratio of 2.4× — accessible. 15.6% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Median household income is $50,867, below the U.S. median near $78,000. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 30/100.

Net-net, 29702 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.