Brooke County, WV: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

DLRadar tracks property distress across Brooke County, West Virginia using verifiable public-record signals alone. Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 20 to 33 out of 100. There are 9 scored ZIPs in the county (mean composite 29/100). On bank and credit headwind, Brooke County scores 26/100.

The expansion-phase county posted home values that rose 8.5% over twelve months, at 58/100 phase confidence. Even as prices climb, a subset takes on water which the scoring still flags.

At +8.5% YoY (58/100 confidence), liquidity improves for clean exits which speeds resale of distressed buys. Lender stress at 26/100 (contained) favors tax delinquency, probate and liens.

Leading Brooke County on distress: 26003 (33/100), 26032 (31/100), 26030 (30/100), 26035 (30/100), 26037 (30/100), 26058 (30/100). Coverage extends to 26070, 26075, 26062 among others.

Underneath the scores, Brooke County's tracked footprint come in at incomes around $57,705, a median age of 43.4, 16.1% of households below the poverty line, an owner-occupied share of 79%, 11.6% of units sitting vacant, home values averaging roughly $122,313, below the US. Income, equity and tenure like these set up both the distress on offer and the exit velocity.

Brooke County, West Virginia's 29/100 average over 9 ZIPs says distress here is parcel-specific — work it parcel by parcel. A DLRadar subscription opens every Brooke County parcel: owner, mailing address, APN, a per-parcel score, lender exposure and exit read.

No county is too small to score: Brooke County, West Virginia runs through the same foreclosure, tax, lien and bank-stress model as every major metro, so Brooke County's numbers mean exactly what they mean anywhere else in West Virginia.

For anyone buying in Brooke County, the scores answer one question first — which ZIPs deserve the marketing budget, with the top reading 33/100. The Brooke County read is rebuilt from public records as they post — no modeling fills the gaps — so what you see is what the documents support, refreshed on each ingest.

The ZIP breakdown for Brooke County leads with 26003 (33/100), 26032 (31/100), 26030 (30/100), 26035 (30/100), 26037 (30/100), 26058 (30/100). DLRadar also scores 26070, 26075, 26062 across the county. Because each ZIP is graded on its own foreclosure, tax and lender record, the county's distress is best read code by code rather than as a single number.

The Brooke County score is not a single measure but a composite: foreclosure activity, mortgage and tax-lien stress, and local lender headwind each feed it, which is why understanding the components matters as much as the headline number.