ZIP 30802 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Columbia County, Georgia · High Vacancy market
ZIP code 30802 in Columbia County, Georgia carries a composite property-distress score of 34/100 — a moderate reading on DLRadar's deterministic distress index. Its standout signals are structural risk (75/100), institutional ownership (66/100), construction/permit lag (62/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (26/100) register low. Structurally it carries 75/100, against 8/100 of stress already in motion. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (88/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (87/100), climate & FEMA risk (80/100).
The market reads neutral — home values rose 4.9% year on year, and 14% higher over three years, at 27/100 phase confidence. Even climbing markets leave specific parcels in distress; the scoring isolates them.
The vacancy rate is 20.2% — elevated. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 30/100. Rent burden reaches 37% of tenant households. Educational attainment sits at 25% bachelor's-or-above. Roughly 13.9% live below the poverty line. About 6,375 people live here, median age 49. Households earn a median $88,395 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. Home values center near $322,000, an affordability ratio of 3.3× — accessible. There are about 2,717 housing units across 30802. The tenure split is 86% owner-occupied to 14% rented.
Net-net, 30802 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Parcel-level detail for 30802 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced.
The number is not local guesswork: 30802's 34/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 30802, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.
Behind 30802's composite sit distinct signals (foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender and structural), each scored on its own before rolling up, so two ZIPs with the same total can describe very different situations on the ground. For an operator, 30802 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.
What is driving ZIP 30802’s distress
Tax arrears, institutional buyers, insurance load, flood exposure, stalled construction, dislocated pricing and auction velocity — together with the 0 individual distressed properties (owner, address, APN, per-property score and exit read) are in the full DLRadar report.
Snapshot: 30802 by the numbers
Real-time distress, cycle phase, housing and bank-stress readings for 30802, the same set carried on every parcel.
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