ZIP 29816 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

DLRadar grades ZIP 29816 (Aiken County, South Carolina) at a moderate 36/100 for overall property distress. Structural risk reads 79/100 against active distress of 8/100. Leading the profile are construction/permit lag (83/100), structural risk (79/100), institutional ownership (67/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (25/100). It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (95/100), climate & FEMA risk (84/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (67/100).

Prices here sit in a neutral phase: values rose 4.9% over the trailing year, at 27/100 phase confidence. Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.

About 931 people live here, median age 36. The vacancy rate is 21.9% — elevated. Median household income is $45,846, below the U.S. median near $78,000. The ZIP holds roughly 399 housing units. Rent burden reaches 20% of tenant households. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 32/100. A median home runs $87,800 here, or 1.9 times local income. About 2% have a four-year degree. The tenure split is 60% owner-occupied to 40% rented. 30.5% of residents fall below the poverty threshold.

Taken together, 29816 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.

No ZIP is too small to score: 29816 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 36/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 29816 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

Each component behind 29816 - foreclosure, mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, lender pullback, structural exposure - is graded on its own before the 36/100 roll-up. Practically, 29816 works as a screen — verify the reading, drill to the specific parcels driving it, and carry the deal through capital and closing on the platform.