ZIP 29720 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Lancaster County, South Carolina's ZIP 29720 registers 33/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. Structural risk reads 72/100 against active distress of 8/100. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (92/100), climate & FEMA risk (80/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (79/100). The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (72/100), institutional ownership (67/100), construction/permit lag (56/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (25/100) register low.

The market reads peak — home values rose 3.2% year on year, and 11% higher over three years, at 21/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

Owners hold 78% of homes, renters 22%. Home values center near $245,500, an affordability ratio of 3.6× — accessible. Median household income is $59,039, below the U.S. median near $78,000. Rent burden reaches 48% of tenant households. About 51,603 people live here, median age 41. There are about 22,777 housing units across 29720. Vacancy runs 7.8%. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 33/100. 17.4% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Educational attainment sits at 22% bachelor's-or-above.

Net-net, 29720 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.