ZIP 29812 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

In Barnwell County, South Carolina, ZIP 29812 scores 21 of 100 for composite distress, a low level on DLRadar's public-record index. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — FEMA disaster exposure (95/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (63/100). Its standout signals are institutional ownership (78/100), structural risk (46/100), mortgage stress (31/100). mortgage stress (31/100) stay muted. Structural risk reads 46/100 against active distress of 9/100.

Prices here sit in a expansion phase: values rose 5.4% over the trailing year, and 36% higher over three years, at 48/100 phase confidence. Even climbing markets leave specific parcels in distress; the scoring isolates them.

10,965 residents call 29812 home, typically aged 40. At $44,494, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. The typical home is worth about $112,900 (2.4× income, relatively affordable). 74% of housing is owner-occupied. Vacancy runs 17.4%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Rent burden reaches 46% of tenant households. Around 16% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. There are about 5,141 housing units across 29812. The poverty rate is 31.0% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 34/100.

Taken together, 29812 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.