ZIP 29944 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 29944 (Hampton County, South Carolina) at a low 22/100 for overall property distress. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — FEMA disaster exposure (95/100), climate & FEMA risk (60/100). Property-level stress concentrates in institutional ownership (60/100), structural risk (46/100), mortgage stress (24/100). mortgage stress (24/100) and construction/permit lag (19/100) stay muted. Structural risk reads 46/100 against active distress of 7/100.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 5.0% over the trailing year, at 46/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

Vacancy runs 20.6%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 30/100. The typical home is worth about $112,100 (1.9× income, relatively affordable). Rent burden reaches 55% of tenant households. 4,242 residents call 29944 home, typically aged 41. Around 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 70% of housing is owner-occupied. The poverty rate is 12.2%. There are about 2,008 housing units across 29944. At $51,573, median income runs below typical U.S. levels.

Taken together, 29944 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.