Gilmer County, WV: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Gilmer County, WV, West Virginia: 16 ZIP codes scored, Gilmer County, WV averaging 15/100 (low, Gilmer, WV), from 5 to 24. Gilmer County, WV is in its expansion phase (Gilmer, WV confidence 57/100): Gilmer, WV home prices up 8.0% (Gilmer, WV) over twelve months. Gilmer County, WV lender headwind: 22/100.
Highest-scoring Gilmer County, WV ZIPs: 26411 (24/100), 26384 (19/100), 25267 (18/100), 26147 (18/100), 26342 (18/100), 26430 (18/100). Also scored in Gilmer County, WV: 26443, 26611, 26638, 26351, 26137, 26412, 26636, 26335, 26623, 26624.
Across Gilmer County, WV's scored ZIPs: median home value $103,670, household income $49,140, 26.6% vacancy, 18.8% poverty, 84% owner-occupied, median age 44.9.
Gilmer County, WV insurance distress 27/100 (#1,830 in the US); FEMA hazard 52/100 for Gilmer, WV; 4 federal disaster declarations in Gilmer County, WV since 2023 (2 flood); Gilmer, WV construction distress 92/100.
2 banks with 2 branches lend in Gilmer County, WV; Gilmer, WV weighted bank stress 49/100, highest 62/100 in Gilmer, WV.
Gilmer County, WV unemployment 3.7% (Gilmer, WV -1.9 pts, six months); 4 new housing units permitted in Gilmer County, WV over twelve months, Gilmer, WV down 60% from 10.
3,117 housing units in Gilmer County, WV; 525 Gilmer, WV renter households; 20% of Gilmer, WV renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 11% (Gilmer, WV) half or more.
Gilmer County, WV ranks #1,524 nationally on the opportunity index (Gilmer, WV, among all ranked counties); Gilmer, WV scores 29.3/100 and Gilmer, WV sits #29 inside West Virginia. Gilmer, WV is in the early_signal opportunity phase; Gilmer, WV's primary driver is vacancy, Gilmer, WV second driver construction; Gilmer, WV moved down 751 places. 5 short-sale listings across Gilmer, WV; 6 days on market observed in Gilmer, WV; 24.6% vacancy over 16 Gilmer, WV ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Gilmer County, WV. The non-metro area reading for Gilmer, WV: 1.2% ninety-plus days late; Gilmer, WV's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 3.9% (Gilmer, WV, December 2025 data); West Virginia overall 1.1%.
Gilmer County, WV has 1 watched bank; 1 Gilmer, WV bank sits in an elevated band. Gilmer, WV footprints: Calhoun County Bank Inc (1 branch, stress 62) in Gilmer, WV.
863 of the 3,117 housing units in Gilmer, WV sit vacant. Gilmer County, WV permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Gilmer, WV's one-to-four unit structures added 4 units in Gilmer County, WV.