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

Mcdowell County, West Virginia is mapped parcel-to-ZIP by DLRadar's public-record distress engine. The county's ZIP scores run from 21 up to 31/100. On bank and credit headwind, Mcdowell County scores 61/100, a stressed reading. The county spans 38 scored ZIP codes, averaging 30/100 composite distress.

In its expansion phase, Mcdowell County home prices rose 8.0% across the last year (phase confidence 57/100). Despite the upswing, a subset takes on water which the scoring still flags.

At +8.0% YoY (57/100 confidence), distress still hides in specific ZIPs — and a rising tide cleans up those exits. Its 61/100 lender headwind is a buyer tailwind: banks under pressure move REO faster.

By composite, 24808 (31/100), 24811 (31/100), 24813 (31/100), 24815 (31/100), 24816 (31/100), 24817 (31/100) top the county — tap any ZIP to go deeper. Also scored across the county: 24826, 24830, 24831, 24836, 24843, 24846, 24848, 24850, 24853, 24855.

Demographically, Mcdowell County's tracked footprint show home values averaging roughly $65,832, below the US, vacancy near 30.2%, poverty running near 27.3%, residents with a median age around 49.8, an owner-occupied share of 79%, household income averaging about $33,377, below the national median. Taken together, they frame the depth of motivated supply and the pace of resale.

Mcdowell County, West Virginia's 30/100 average over 38 ZIPs says the opportunity hides below the average — work it parcel by parcel. Subscribers get each Mcdowell County parcel's owner and contact detail, APN, a distress score and bank-exposure read.

Whether Mcdowell County, West Virginia carries heavy distress or only a handful of flagged parcels, every score here is built the same deterministic way — from recorded foreclosures, tax delinquency, liens and lender stress — so Mcdowell County can be compared directly against any county in the country.

Read Mcdowell County, West Virginia as a heat map for effort — the county's moderate composite of 30/100 hides wide ZIP-level variation, and the return comes from chasing the hot ZIPs, not the average. The Mcdowell County read is rebuilt from public records as they post — no modeling fills the gaps — so what you see is what the documents support, refreshed on each ingest.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Mcdowell County are 24808 (31/100), 24811 (31/100), 24813 (31/100), 24815 (31/100), 24816 (31/100), 24817 (31/100). DLRadar also scores 24826, 24830, 24831, 24836, 24843, 24846, 24848, 24850 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.

The Mcdowell 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.