ZIP 29720 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Lancaster County, South Carolina · Distress market
In Lancaster County, South Carolina, ZIP 29720 scores 32 of 100 for composite distress, a moderate level on DLRadar's distress index. The split runs 71/100 structural to 8/100 active on the ground. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (93/100), climate & FEMA risk (80/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (77/100). The sharpest non-environmental signals are structural risk (71/100), institutional ownership (67/100), construction/permit lag (52/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (25/100).
The market reads peak — home values rose 1.0% year on year, and 11% higher over three years (phase confidence 16/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.
78% of housing is owner-occupied. A median home runs $245,500 here, or 3.6 times local income. Households earn a median $59,039 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Rent burden reaches 48% of tenant households. About 51,603 people live here, median age 41. The ZIP holds roughly 22,777 housing units. The vacancy rate is 7.8%. On demographic stress specifically, 29720 scores 33/100. 17.4% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. About 22% have a four-year degree.
On balance 29720 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. While 29720 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.
Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 29720's 32/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Lancaster County, South Carolina or any ZIP coast to coast. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed as records update; 29720 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.
The 32/100 figure for 29720 is a composite, not one metric: it rolls up foreclosure and pre-foreclosure activity, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, local lender headwind, and structural risk into a single reading, which is why a ZIP can look calm on price yet score high on distress. For a buyer, 29720 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.
Signal-by-signal read on 29720
Delinquency on tax, investor concentration, insurance pressure, NFIP flood, lagging construction, price dislocation and sale velocity — and the 0 individual distressed properties — each with owner, address, APN, its own distress score and an exit read — are in the full report.
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