ZIP 29856 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Aiken County, South Carolina's ZIP 29856 registers 36/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. Structural exposure scores 79 and live distress 8 on the 0–100 scale. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — FEMA disaster exposure (95/100), climate & FEMA risk (84/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (67/100). What sets it apart are the readings on construction/permit lag (83/100), structural risk (79/100), institutional ownership (67/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (25/100).

Prices here sit in a neutral phase: values rose 4.9% over the trailing year (phase confidence 27/100). Even climbing markets leave specific parcels in distress; the scoring isolates them.

About 3,473 people live here, median age 38. The tenure split is 92% owner-occupied to 8% rented. Households earn a median $49,167 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Vacancy runs 7.9%. A median home runs $151,000 here, or 3.1 times local income. There are about 1,218 housing units across 29856. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 30/100. Roughly 11.6% live below the poverty line. Around 40% of renters are cost-burdened. Around 9% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher.

Overall, 29856 shows a mixed profile — neither uniformly stressed nor insulated — so opportunity is property-specific. No parcel file is published for 29856 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

The 29856 read uses the identical public-record model applied coast to coast, which means its 36/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 29856 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Aiken County, South Carolina. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 29856, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

Each component behind 29856 - foreclosure, mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, lender pullback, structural exposure - is graded on its own before the 36/100 roll-up. For a buyer, 29856 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.