ZIP 29821 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP code 29821 in Edgefield County, South Carolina carries a composite property-distress score of 24/100 — a low reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. On the structural side it scores 54/100, with 8/100 of stress already active. Its heaviest discrete signals: institutional ownership (68/100), construction/permit lag (60/100), structural risk (54/100). mortgage stress (27/100) stay muted. Environmental exposure also runs high (FEMA disaster exposure (95/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (78/100)).

The market reads expansion — home values rose 5.6% year on year, and 51% higher over three years (phase confidence 37/100). Even climbing markets leave specific parcels in distress; the scoring isolates them.

About 1,245 people live here, median age 41. The ZIP holds roughly 530 housing units. Rent burden reaches 81% of tenant households. About 14% have a four-year degree. A median home runs $277,800 here, or 3.6 times local income. Vacancy runs 35.2%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. On demographic stress specifically, 29821 scores 45/100. At $69,659, median income runs near typical U.S. levels. 93% of housing is owner-occupied. Roughly 37.8% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory.

Net-net, 29821 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Parcel-level detail for 29821 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced to public records.

Big metro or rural, 29821 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 24/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Edgefield County, South Carolina and the nation. Where the public record is thin for 29821, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.

Each component behind 29821 - foreclosure, mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, lender pullback, structural exposure - is graded on its own before the 24/100 roll-up. For an operator, 29821 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.