ZIP 29801 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Aiken County, South Carolina's ZIP 29801 registers 35/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. Structural risk reads 77/100 against active distress of 8/100. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (92/100), climate & FEMA risk (84/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (68/100). The most distinctive pressure shows up in construction/permit lag (77/100), structural risk (77/100), institutional ownership (65/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (25/100) register low.

The market reads expansion — home values rose 5.6% year on year, and 29% higher over three years, at 33/100 phase confidence. Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

Owners hold 66% of homes, renters 34%. Home values center near $174,100, an affordability ratio of 3.0× — accessible. Vacancy runs 16.4%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Educational attainment sits at 28% bachelor's-or-above. About 30,088 people live here, median age 40. Rent burden reaches 51% of tenant households. There are about 14,143 housing units across 29801. 21.9% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 34/100. Median household income is $55,032, below the U.S. median near $78,000.

Net-net, 29801 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.