ZIP 29812 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP code 29812 in Barnwell County, South Carolina carries a composite property-distress score of 24/100 — a low reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — FEMA disaster exposure (97/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (63/100). The most distinctive pressure shows up in institutional ownership (79/100), structural risk (52/100), mortgage stress (31/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (31/100) and construction/permit lag (22/100) register low. On the structural side it scores 52/100, with 9/100 of stress already active.

Prices here sit in a expansion phase: values rose 6.4% over the trailing year, and 36% higher over three years (phase confidence 48/100). Even climbing markets leave specific parcels in distress; the scoring isolates them.

About 10,965 people live here, median age 40. At $44,494, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. A median home runs $112,900 here, or 2.4 times local income. Owners hold 74% of homes, renters 26%. Vacancy runs 17.4%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Rent burden reaches 46% of tenant households. Educational attainment sits at 16% bachelor's-or-above. The ZIP holds roughly 5,141 housing units. The poverty rate is 31.0% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 34/100.

Taken together, 29812 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. 29812 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

The number is not local guesswork: 29812's 24/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. 29812 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.

29812's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. Treat 29812 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.