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

Hancock County, WV, West Virginia: 5 ZIP codes scored, Hancock County, WV averaging 18/100 (low, Hancock, WV), from 18 to 19. Hancock County, WV is in its expansion phase (Hancock, WV confidence 58/100): Hancock, WV home prices up 8.5% (Hancock, WV) over twelve months. Hancock County, WV lender headwind: 0/100.

Highest-scoring Hancock County, WV ZIPs: 26062 (19/100), 26034 (18/100), 26047 (18/100), 26050 (18/100), 26056 (18/100).

Across Hancock County, WV's scored ZIPs: median home value $120,040, household income $58,529, 10.5% vacancy, 15.3% poverty, 77% owner-occupied, median age 47.9.

Hancock County, WV insurance distress 64/100 (#819 in the US); FEMA hazard 59/100 for Hancock, WV; 6 federal disaster declarations in Hancock County, WV since 2023 (2 flood); 7 Hancock, WV NFIP flood claims, $67K paid.

4 banks with 6 branches lend in Hancock County, WV; Hancock, WV weighted bank stress 44/100, highest 63/100 in Hancock, WV.

Hancock County, WV unemployment 4.7% (Hancock, WV -1.4 pts, six months); 22 new housing units permitted in Hancock County, WV over twelve months, Hancock, WV up 100% from 11; Hancock, WV home prices +8.6% a year (Hancock, WV) over three years.

14,194 housing units in Hancock County, WV; 3,268 Hancock, WV renter households; 38% of Hancock, WV renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 22% (Hancock, WV) half or more.

Hancock County, WV ranks #1,477 nationally on the opportunity index (Hancock, WV, among all ranked counties); Hancock, WV scores 29.5/100 and Hancock, WV sits #28 inside West Virginia. Hancock, WV is in the early_signal opportunity phase; Hancock, WV's primary driver is bank institutional, Hancock, WV second driver vacancy; Hancock, WV moved up 618 places. 110 days on market observed in Hancock, WV; 8.9% vacancy over 5 Hancock, WV ZIPs.

No CFPB county sample covers Hancock County, WV. The non-metro area reading for Hancock, WV: 1.2% ninety-plus days late; Hancock, WV's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 3.9% (Hancock, WV, December 2025 data); West Virginia overall 1.1%.

Hancock County, WV has 2 watched banks; 2 Hancock, WV banks sit in an elevated band. Hancock, WV footprints: Hancock County Sb Fsb (2 branches, stress 42) in Hancock, WV; Wesbanco Bank Inc (1 branch, stress 44) in Hancock, WV.

HUD lists 3 assisted multifamily properties in Hancock County, WV with 138 units; 135 Hancock, WV units are assisted, 1 Hancock, WV properties under project-based Section 8.

1,370 of the 14,194 housing units in Hancock, WV sit vacant. Hancock County, WV permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Hancock, WV's one-to-four unit structures added 22 units in Hancock County, WV.