ZIP 29842 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Aiken County, South Carolina's ZIP 29842 registers 35/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — FEMA disaster exposure (92/100), climate & FEMA risk (84/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (68/100). The latent-versus-live split is 77/100 structural and 8/100 already moving. The most distinctive pressure shows up in construction/permit lag (77/100), structural risk (77/100), institutional ownership (65/100). mortgage stress (25/100) stay muted.

Prices here sit in a expansion phase: values rose 5.6% over the trailing year, and 33% higher over three years (phase confidence 33/100). Even climbing markets leave specific parcels in distress; the scoring isolates them.

The typical home is worth about $126,800 (1.9× income, relatively affordable). The poverty rate is 12.4%. Around 14% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Around 36% of renters are cost-burdened. At $58,259, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. The ZIP holds roughly 3,561 housing units. The vacancy rate is 13.9% — elevated. 80% of housing is owner-occupied. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 26/100. 7,727 residents call 29842 home, typically aged 37.

Taken together, 29842 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.