ZIP 29838 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP 29838's composite property-distress score is 24/100 - DLRadar classes that as low for Edgefield County, South Carolina. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (95/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (78/100). What sets it apart are the readings on institutional ownership (68/100), construction/permit lag (58/100), structural risk (54/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (27/100). On the structural side it scores 54/100, with 8/100 of stress already active.

The market reads expansion — home values rose 5.5% year on year, at 35/100 phase confidence. Even climbing markets leave specific parcels in distress; the scoring isolates them.

93% of housing is owner-occupied. Median household income is $95,100, above the U.S. median near $78,000. Home values center near $229,500, an affordability ratio of 3.7× — accessible. Around 44% of renters are cost-burdened. About 748 people live here, median age 51. The ZIP holds roughly 458 housing units. Vacancy runs 36.9%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Around 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 30.1% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. On demographic stress specifically, 29838 scores 37/100.

On the whole, 29838 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. There is no property file for 29838 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable public records.

Big metro or rural, 29838 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. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 29838 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

Each component behind 29838 - foreclosure, mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, lender pullback, structural exposure - is graded on its own before the 24/100 roll-up. In workflow terms, 29838 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.