Ritchie County, WV: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Ritchie County, WV, West Virginia: 14 ZIP codes scored, Ritchie County, WV averaging 14/100 (minimal, Ritchie, WV), from 9 to 19. Ritchie County, WV is in its expansion phase (Ritchie, WV confidence 57/100): Ritchie, WV home prices up 8.0% (Ritchie, WV) over twelve months. Ritchie County, WV lender headwind: 54/100.
Highest-scoring Ritchie County, WV ZIPs: 26456 (19/100), 26415 (16/100), 26137 (15/100), 26148 (14/100), 26161 (14/100), 26178 (14/100). Also scored in Ritchie County, WV: 26325, 26327, 26337, 26346, 26362, 26421, 26170, 26143.
Across Ritchie County, WV's scored ZIPs: median home value $127,973, household income $57,057, 21.7% vacancy, 19.7% poverty, 84% owner-occupied, median age 47.6.
Ritchie County, WV insurance distress 44/100 (#1,268 in the US); FEMA hazard 63/100 for Ritchie, WV; 6 federal disaster declarations in Ritchie County, WV since 2023 (3 flood); 1 Ritchie, WV NFIP flood claims; Ritchie, WV construction distress 47/100.
4 banks with 7 branches lend in Ritchie County, WV; Ritchie, WV weighted bank stress 56/100, highest 81/100 in Ritchie, WV.
Ritchie County, WV unemployment 4.6% (Ritchie, WV -2.6 pts, six months); 27 new housing units permitted in Ritchie County, WV over twelve months, Ritchie, WV up 4% from 26.
4,176 housing units in Ritchie County, WV; 524 Ritchie, WV renter households; 26% of Ritchie, WV renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 15% (Ritchie, WV) half or more.
Ritchie County, WV ranks #1,538 nationally on the opportunity index (Ritchie, WV, among all ranked counties); Ritchie, WV scores 29.3/100 and Ritchie, WV sits #29 inside West Virginia. Ritchie, WV is in the early_signal opportunity phase; Ritchie, WV's primary driver is vacancy, Ritchie, WV second driver bank institutional; Ritchie, WV moved down 426 places. 4 short-sale listings across Ritchie, WV; 45 days on market observed in Ritchie, WV; 18.9% vacancy over 14 Ritchie, WV ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Ritchie County, WV. The non-metro area reading for Ritchie, WV: 1.2% ninety-plus days late; Ritchie, WV's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 3.9% (Ritchie, WV, December 2025 data); West Virginia overall 1.1%.
Ritchie County, WV has 1 watched bank; 1 Ritchie, WV bank sits in an elevated band. Ritchie, WV footprints: West Union Bank (2 branches, stress 81) in Ritchie, WV.
HUD lists 1 assisted multifamily property in Ritchie County, WV with 24 units; 24 Ritchie, WV units are assisted, 1 Ritchie, WV properties under project-based Section 8.
787 of the 4,176 housing units in Ritchie, WV sit vacant. Ritchie County, WV permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Ritchie, WV's one-to-four unit structures added 27 units in Ritchie County, WV.