ZIP 29920 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Composite property distress in 29920 (Beaufort County, South Carolina) lands at 40/100 — moderate on DLRadar's distress scoring. The latent-versus-live split is 89/100 structural and 9/100 already moving. Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (93/100), structural risk (89/100), institutional ownership (71/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (29/100) register low. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (97/100), FEMA disaster exposure (96/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (88/100)).

The market reads peak — home values rose 4.0% year on year, and 7% higher over three years, at 51/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

Home values center near $288,700, an affordability ratio of 3.9× — accessible. 17.7% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. About 9,918 people live here, median age 56. Around 57% of renters are cost-burdened. The ZIP holds roughly 7,163 housing units. Around 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The vacancy rate is 38.0% — elevated. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 35/100. Owners hold 91% of homes, renters 9%. At $72,865, median income runs near typical U.S. levels.

Net-net, 29920 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. 29920 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

Whether 29920 runs hot or quiet, its 40/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 29920 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Beaufort County, South Carolina or nationwide. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 29920 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

29920'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. In workflow terms, 29920 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.