ZIP 29824 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP code 29824 in Edgefield County, South Carolina carries a composite property-distress score of 22/100 — a low reading on DLRadar's deterministic distress index. Leading the profile are institutional ownership (68/100), structural risk (50/100), construction/permit lag (34/100). On the quiet end sit construction/permit lag (34/100) and mortgage stress (26/100). It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (93/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (79/100). Latent structural risk is 50/100 while live distress already moving reads 8/100.

The market reads neutral — home values rose 4.8% year on year, and 25% higher over three years (phase confidence 26/100). Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

Households earn a median $46,984 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Around 45% of renters are cost-burdened. Roughly 18.1% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. There are about 3,117 housing units across 29824. 72% of housing is owner-occupied. Vacancy runs 17.6%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. On demographic stress specifically, 29824 scores 32/100. About 7,598 people live here, median age 41. About 17% have a four-year degree. A median home runs $156,200 here, or 2.6 times local income.

Net-net, 29824 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. 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: 29824 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 22/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 29824, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

29824's score blends several independent layers — foreclosure and mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, bank headwind and structural exposure — into one 0–100 number, so understanding the components matters as much as the headline for anyone screening the ZIP. Treat 29824 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.