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

For Ritchie County, West Virginia, DLRadar turns county and parcel public records into a single distress score per ZIP. ZIP-level distress ranges from 21/100 at the top down to 8/100. 14 ZIP codes are tracked county-wide, averaging 16/100 distress. Lender pressure in Ritchie County registers 54/100 — a moderate bank-stress headwind.

The expansion-phase county posted home values that rose 8.0% over twelve months, at 57/100 phase confidence. While the county appreciates, specific ZIPs still slip so the laggard ZIPs are the opening.

With growth of +8.0% YoY (57/100 confidence), liquidity improves for clean exits so buy those and momentum helps on exit. A mid-cycle 54/100 lender reading implies mixed owner- and bank-driven distress.

Leading Ritchie County on distress: 26456 (21/100), 26415 (19/100), 26148 (17/100), 26161 (17/100), 26178 (17/100), 26325 (17/100). The breakdown continues through 26327, 26337, 26346, 26362, 26421, 26137, 26143, 26170 and more.

By the numbers, Ritchie County's tracked footprint show household income averaging about $57,057, below the national median, 84% of homes owner-occupied, 19.7% of households below the poverty line, a 21.7% vacancy rate, typical home values near $127,973, a median age of 47.6. Numbers like these shape who sells under pressure and how fast a deal moves.

Ritchie County, West Virginia's 16/100 average over 14 ZIPs says Ritchie County rewards parcel-by-parcel work and not a county-wide play. Unlock Ritchie County to see every parcel's owner and contact detail, APN, a distress score and bank-exposure read.

The distress read for Ritchie County, West Virginia is refreshed as new public records post and uses the same methodology coast to coast, so Ritchie County stays directly comparable to any other market you track.

Ritchie County, West Virginia is best worked from the top of the score down; blanket outreach across Ritchie County dilutes effort that the ZIP-level numbers would have focused. What supports the Ritchie County read is documentary: filings from the recorder and courts, federal price and bank data, and blanks wherever coverage is thin.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Ritchie County are 26456 (21/100), 26415 (19/100), 26148 (17/100), 26161 (17/100), 26178 (17/100), 26325 (17/100). DLRadar also scores 26327, 26337, 26346, 26362, 26421, 26137, 26143, 26170 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.

Under Ritchie 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.