ZIP 31709 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Sumter County, Georgia's ZIP 31709 registers 24/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (73/100). The most distinctive pressure shows up in construction/permit lag (81/100), structural risk (54/100), institutional ownership (46/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (20/100) register low. Structural risk reads 54/100 against active distress of 6/100.

The market reads peak — home values rose 2.9% year on year, and 29% higher over three years, at 25/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

Vacancy runs 13.6%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. A median home runs $139,800 here, or 3.1 times local income. There are about 6,680 housing units across 31709. Rent burden reaches 33% of tenant households. About 14,966 people live here, median age 31. About 28% have a four-year degree. The tenure split is 44% owner-occupied to 56% rented. Roughly 23.8% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. Households earn a median $41,400 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. On demographic stress specifically, 31709 scores 34/100.

Net-net, 31709 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.