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

Every ZIP in Kanawha County, West Virginia carries a DLRadar distress score assembled from foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender records. ZIP-level distress ranges from 37/100 at the top down to 19/100. The county spans 48 scored ZIP codes, averaging 35/100 composite distress. Bank/credit headwind for the county is 37 on a 0–100 scale, a moderate reading.

The expansion-phase county posted home values that rose 9.2% over twelve months, at 85/100 phase confidence. Under a rising market, pockets of distress persist which the scoring still flags.

Even appreciating at +9.2% YoY (85/100 confidence), stressed pockets remain — and a rising tide cleans up those exits. Mid-range bank stress at 37/100 points to a blend the ZIP scores sort out.

Distress concentrates in ZIP 25015 (37/100), ZIP 25025 (37/100), ZIP 25035 (37/100), ZIP 25039 (37/100), ZIP 25054 (37/100), ZIP 25061 (37/100) — drill into any for the parcel-level read. The breakdown continues through 25064, 25067, 25075, 25086, 25102, 25103, 25107, 25110, 25112, 25126 and more.

Profile-wise, Kanawha County's tracked footprint run household income averaging about $60,091, below the national median, 15.7% of households below the poverty line, home values averaging roughly $121,895, below the US, vacancy near 15.8%, residents with a median age around 45.3, an owner-occupied share of 73%. Numbers like these signal who sells under pressure and how fast a deal moves.

All in at 35/100 over 48 ZIPs, the edge is selective acquisition for a disciplined buyer. Subscribers get each Kanawha County parcel's owner, address and APN, per-parcel scoring with lender exposure and resale velocity.

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

The way to work Kanawha County, West Virginia is top-down — start with the highest-scoring ZIPs (up to 37/100 here), then drill to the parcels driving those numbers, rather than blanketing Kanawha County with undifferentiated outreach. Nothing in the Kanawha County read is modelled: recorder and court filings drive foreclosure and lien signals, FHFA sets the price cycle, FDIC the lender stress, and a thin source stays blank.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Kanawha County are 25015 (37/100), 25025 (37/100), 25035 (37/100), 25039 (37/100), 25054 (37/100), 25061 (37/100). DLRadar also scores 25064, 25067, 25075, 25086, 25102, 25103, 25107, 25110 and more across the county. Each code carries its own composite built from that ZIP's foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien and lender signals, so two neighboring ZIPs can diverge sharply even inside one county.

DLRadar's composite for Kanawha County blends several independent signals — foreclosure and pre-foreclosure filings, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, and the bank-stress headwind of the lenders operating locally — into one 0–100 score per ZIP, so a market can rank high on one axis and low on another.