ZIP 29851 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP code 29851 in Aiken County, South Carolina carries a composite property-distress score of 35/100 — a moderate reading on DLRadar's deterministic distress index. Its heaviest discrete signals: construction/permit lag (82/100), structural risk (78/100), institutional ownership (65/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (25/100). It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (93/100), climate & FEMA risk (84/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (65/100). The split runs 78/100 structural to 8/100 active on the ground.

The neutral-phase market in 29851 posted values that rose 4.9% over the year, and 30% higher over three years, at 27/100 phase confidence. Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

Vacancy runs 16.8%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Rent burden reaches 41% of tenant households. There are about 4,029 housing units across 29851. About 15% have a four-year degree. 9,081 residents call 29851 home, typically aged 39. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 29/100. 11.2% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Home values center near $164,000, an affordability ratio of 2.3× — accessible. Households earn a median $65,882 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. The tenure split is 75% owner-occupied to 25% rented.

Net-net, 29851 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.

Whether 29851 runs hot or quiet, its 35/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 29851 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Aiken County, South Carolina or nationwide. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed as records update; 29851 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

29851'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. For a buyer, 29851 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.