ZIP 29843 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP code 29843 in Bamberg County, South Carolina carries a composite property-distress score of 28/100 — a low reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. Environmental exposure also runs high (FEMA disaster exposure (98/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (86/100)). What sets it apart are the readings on institutional ownership (74/100), structural risk (62/100), construction/permit lag (53/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (31/100). Structural exposure scores 62 and live distress 9 on the 0–100 scale.

Prices here sit in a expansion phase: values rose 6.4% over the trailing year (phase confidence 48/100). Even climbing markets leave specific parcels in distress; the scoring isolates them.

The vacancy rate is 27.8% — elevated. Rent burden reaches 55% of tenant households. A median home runs $77,700 here, or 1.9 times local income. There are about 501 housing units across 29843. The tenure split is 83% owner-occupied to 17% rented. Roughly 35.0% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. About 1,056 people live here, median age 41. Median household income is $36,042, below the U.S. median near $78,000. Around 8% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 36/100.

Net-net, 29843 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. There is no property file for 29843 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable public records.

The 29843 read uses the identical public-record model applied coast to coast, which means its 28/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 29843 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Bamberg County, South Carolina. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 29843 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

The 28/100 figure for 29843 is a composite, not one metric: it rolls up foreclosure and pre-foreclosure activity, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, local lender headwind, and structural risk into a single reading, which is why a ZIP can look calm on price yet score high on distress. Treat 29843 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.