Fayette County, WV: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Fayette County, WV, West Virginia: 45 ZIP codes scored, Fayette County, WV averaging 22/100 (low, Fayette, WV), from 19 to 33. Fayette County, WV is in its expansion phase (Fayette, WV confidence 100/100): Fayette, WV home prices up 9.6% (Fayette, WV) over twelve months. Fayette County, WV lender headwind: 50/100.
Highest-scoring Fayette County, WV ZIPs: 25083 (33/100), 25136 (24/100), 25962 (24/100), 25036 (23/100), 26680 (23/100), 25002 (22/100). Also scored in Fayette County, WV: 25031, 25040, 25057, 25085, 25090, 25115, 25118, 25119, 25139, 25152.
Across Fayette County, WV's scored ZIPs: median home value $99,281, household income $51,619, 20.4% vacancy, 23.6% poverty, 80% owner-occupied, median age 47.3.
Fayette County, WV insurance distress 56/100 (#994 in the US); FEMA hazard 52/100 for Fayette, WV; 6 federal disaster declarations in Fayette County, WV since 2023; 4 Fayette, WV NFIP flood claims, $19K paid; Fayette, WV construction distress 41/100.
7 banks with 12 branches lend in Fayette County, WV; Fayette, WV weighted bank stress 58/100, highest 84/100 in Fayette, WV.
Fayette County, WV unemployment 4.3% (Fayette, WV -2.4 pts, six months); 35 new housing units permitted in Fayette County, WV over twelve months, Fayette, WV up 9% from 32; Fayette, WV home prices +11.2% a year (Fayette, WV) over three years.
19,084 housing units in Fayette County, WV; 3,915 Fayette, WV renter households; 38% of Fayette, WV renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 17% (Fayette, WV) half or more.
Fayette County, WV ranks #1,100 nationally on the opportunity index (Fayette, WV, among all ranked counties); Fayette, WV scores 30.8/100 and Fayette, WV sits #22 inside West Virginia. Fayette, WV is in the early_signal opportunity phase; Fayette, WV's primary driver is vacancy, Fayette, WV second driver bank institutional; Fayette, WV moved up 181 places. 3 short-sale listings across Fayette, WV; 78 days on market observed in Fayette, WV; 14.1% vacancy over 45 Fayette, WV ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Fayette County, WV. The non-metro area reading for Fayette, WV: 1.2% ninety-plus days late; Fayette, WV's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 3.9% (Fayette, WV, December 2025 data); West Virginia overall 1.1%.
Fayette County, WV has 3 watched banks; 3 Fayette, WV banks sit in an elevated band. Fayette, WV footprints: Fayette Cnty Nb Fayetteville (2 branches, stress 84) in Fayette, WV; Pendleton Community Bank Inc (2 branches, stress 71) in Fayette, WV; City Nb Of West Virginia (2 branches, stress 49) in Fayette, WV.
HUD lists 4 assisted multifamily properties in Fayette County, WV with 271 units; 270 Fayette, WV units are assisted, 3 Fayette, WV properties under project-based Section 8.
3,136 of the 19,084 housing units in Fayette, WV sit vacant. Fayette County, WV permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Fayette, WV's one-to-four unit structures added 35 units in Fayette County, WV.