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

Monongalia County, West Virginia is scored end-to-end by DLRadar for property distress, drawn only from deterministic public records. Individual Monongalia County ZIPs score between 14 and 30 on the 0–100 composite. Lender pressure in Monongalia County registers 31/100 — a contained bank-stress headwind. DLRadar scores 19 ZIPs here, with a mean composite of 21/100.

In its expansion phase, Monongalia County home prices rose 6.7% across the last year, a 55/100-confidence read. While the county appreciates, pockets of distress persist so the laggard ZIPs are the opening.

With growth of +6.7% YoY (55/100 confidence), distress still hides in specific ZIPs — and a rising tide cleans up those exits. A contained 31/100 bank headwind favors tax, code and ownership-change cases over REO.

Leading Monongalia County on distress: 26582 (30/100), 26554 (28/100), 26588 (27/100), 26570 (22/100), 26501 (20/100), 26505 (20/100). Coverage extends to 26506, 26508, 26521, 26534, 26541, 26543, 26544, 26546, 26562, 26575 among others.

Profile-wise, Monongalia County's tracked footprint run a median age of 41.6, 80% owner-occupancy, vacancy near 12.3%, incomes around $64,513, median home values around $180,013 (below the national figure), a 17.8% poverty rate. Taken together, they frame the kind of distress to expect and the buyer pool on exit.

All in at 21/100 over 19 ZIPs, Monongalia County is a screen-by-ZIP market for a disciplined buyer. Subscribers get each Monongalia County parcel's owner and contact detail, APN, a distress reading, the lender on title and exit timing.

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

For an acquisition buyer, the practical use of Monongalia County, West Virginia's scores is triage: the ZIPs and parcels carrying the highest composite are where motivated sellers and below-market exits concentrate, while lower-scored areas rarely justify the marketing spend. The Monongalia County scoring is reproducible from public sources alone, and DLRadar declines to estimate where the underlying record is incomplete.

The ZIP breakdown for Monongalia County leads with 26582 (30/100), 26554 (28/100), 26588 (27/100), 26570 (22/100), 26501 (20/100), 26505 (20/100). DLRadar also scores 26506, 26508, 26521, 26534, 26541, 26543, 26544, 26546 and more across the county. Because each ZIP is graded on its own foreclosure, tax and lender record, the county's distress is best read code by code rather than as a single number.

DLRadar's composite for Monongalia 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.