ZIP 29809 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

DLRadar grades ZIP 29809 (Aiken County, South Carolina) at a moderate 36/100 for overall property distress. Environmental exposure also runs high (FEMA disaster exposure (95/100), climate & FEMA risk (84/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (67/100)). Its heaviest discrete signals: construction/permit lag (83/100), structural risk (79/100), institutional ownership (67/100). mortgage stress (25/100) stay muted. On the structural side it scores 79/100, with 8/100 of stress already active.

The neutral-phase market in 29809 posted values that rose 4.9% over the year, and 9% higher over three years, at 27/100 phase confidence. Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

The typical home is worth about $154,800 (2.3× income, relatively affordable). At $56,042, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. There are about 1,024 housing units across 29809. The vacancy rate is 18.1% — elevated. Population is roughly 2,426 with a median age of 39. Rent burden reaches 0% of tenant households. Educational attainment sits at 19% bachelor's-or-above. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 23/100. Owners hold 77% of homes, renters 23%. The poverty rate is 14.1%.

On the whole, 29809 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. There is no property file for 29809 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable public records.

The 29809 read uses the identical public-record model applied coast to coast, which means its 36/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 29809 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Aiken County, South Carolina. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 29809, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

Behind 29809's composite sit distinct signals (foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender and structural), each scored on its own before rolling up, so two ZIPs with the same total can describe very different situations on the ground. The point of the 29809 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.