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

DLRadar tracks property distress across Gilmer County, West Virginia using verifiable public-record signals alone. ZIP-level distress ranges from 23/100 at the top down to 5/100. There are 16 scored ZIPs in the county (mean composite 15/100). County-level credit and bank headwind reads 22/100.

The county market is in a expansion phase: home prices rose 8.0% over the past year, at 57/100 phase confidence. Despite the upswing, pockets of distress persist where the composite stays elevated.

Through Gilmer County's +8.0% YoY climb (57/100 confidence), liquidity improves for clean exits which speeds resale of distressed buys. A steady 22/100 bank reading puts the live signals on tax delinquency, probate and liens.

Leading Gilmer County on distress: 26411 (23/100), 26384 (18/100), 26443 (18/100), 25267 (17/100), 26147 (17/100), 26342 (17/100). Coverage extends to 26351, 26430, 26611, 26638, 26137, 26412, 26636, 26335, 26623, 26624 among others.

Profile-wise, the Gilmer County ZIPs on file come in at a 26.6% vacancy rate, home values averaging roughly $103,670, below the US, a 18.8% poverty rate, residents with a median age around 44.9, household income averaging about $49,140, below the national median, 84% of homes owner-occupied. Read together, they signal who sells under pressure and how fast a deal moves.

At 15/100 composite over 16 ZIPs, Gilmer County rewards parcel-by-parcel work rather than a blanket buy. Subscribers get each Gilmer County parcel's owner and contact detail, APN, a distress score and bank-exposure read.

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

For anyone buying in Gilmer County, the scores answer one question first — which ZIPs deserve the marketing budget, with the top reading 23/100. All of it is deterministic and auditable: Gilmer County's numbers come from county recorders, the courts, FHFA and FDIC, with nothing interpolated or guessed when a source is sparse.

Drilling in, Gilmer County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 26411 (23/100), 26384 (18/100), 26443 (18/100), 25267 (17/100), 26147 (17/100), 26342 (17/100). DLRadar also scores 26351, 26430, 26611, 26638, 26137, 26412, 26636, 26335 and more across the county. Every one of these is scored independently — a ZIP's composite reflects its own recorded distress, which is why the county average alone hides where the real pressure sits.

The Gilmer 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.