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

Putnam County, West Virginia is scored end-to-end by DLRadar for property distress, drawn only from deterministic public records. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 45/100 (moderate). DLRadar scores 17 ZIPs here, with a mean composite of 22/100. Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 11 to 36 out of 100.

The county market is in a expansion phase: home prices rose 7.3% over the past year, at 37/100 phase confidence. Even as prices climb, some owners fall behind anyway so the laggard ZIPs are the opening.

Even appreciating at +7.3% YoY (37/100 confidence), liquidity improves for clean exits so buy those and momentum helps on exit. Mid-range bank stress at 45/100 points to both signal sets in play here.

The most-distressed ZIP codes in Putnam County are 25177 (36/100), 25143 (31/100), 25510 (24/100), 25523 (22/100), 25011 (21/100), 25033 (21/100), each with its own full DLRadar report. Also scored across the county: 25070, 25109, 25124, 25159, 25168, 25213, 25526, 25560, 25082, 25123.

Demographically, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Putnam County report incomes around $71,445, residents with a median age around 44.4, poverty running near 12.1%, vacancy near 13.9%, an owner-occupied share of 84%, typical home values near $177,269. Taken together, they set up who is forced to sell and how readily the market absorbs it.

Net of it all, 22/100 over 17 ZIPs means the opportunity hides below the average for a disciplined buyer. Subscribers get each Putnam County parcel's owner and contact detail, APN, a distress score plus a funding-to-closing path.

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

The practical read on Putnam County, West Virginia is a targeting one — find the ZIPs holding real financial pressure, then work the parcels underneath them. These Putnam County numbers come straight from public filings and refresh as new ones post; a missing source produces a blank field, never an estimate.

The ZIP breakdown for Putnam County leads with 25177 (36/100), 25143 (31/100), 25510 (24/100), 25523 (22/100), 25011 (21/100), 25033 (21/100). DLRadar also scores 25070, 25109, 25124, 25159, 25168, 25213, 25526, 25560 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.

Under Putnam County's headline composite sit distinct layers — recorded foreclosures, tax and lien delinquency, mortgage stress and bank headwind — each scored separately before they roll up, so the same total can describe very different markets.