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

For Roane County, West Virginia, DLRadar turns county and parcel public records into a single distress score per ZIP. The county spans 13 scored ZIP codes, averaging 25/100 composite distress. ZIP-level distress ranges from 36/100 at the top down to 16/100. Lender pressure in Roane County registers 100/100 — a elevated bank-stress headwind.

In its expansion phase, Roane County home prices rose 8.0% across the last year, a 57/100-confidence read. Under a rising market, some owners fall behind anyway which the scoring still flags.

At +8.0% YoY (57/100 confidence), well-bought parcels resell faster which speeds resale of distressed buys. An elevated 100/100 reading signals what's coming: expect more lender-driven inventory soon.

Top distress by ZIP runs 25071 (36/100), 25045 (34/100), 25005 (25/100), 25243 (25/100), 25251 (25/100), 25259 (25/100), listed with every scored ZIP below. Further scored ZIPs: 25266, 25276, 25286, 25270, 25164, 25244, 25252.

On the housing-and-income side, Roane County's scored ZIPs report home values averaging roughly $151,223, below the US, 83% of homes owner-occupied, a median age of 46, a 20.7% vacancy rate, 13.5% of households below the poverty line, a median household income near $53,056 (below the US norm). Taken together, they frame who sells under pressure and how fast a deal moves.

Roane County, West Virginia's 25/100 average over 13 ZIPs says Roane County is a screen-by-ZIP market — work it parcel by parcel. Subscribers get each Roane County parcel's owner and contact detail, APN, a score, the bank behind the note and how fast it should sell.

Because Roane County, West Virginia is scored on the identical public-record model used nationwide, even a quiet county is measured on one scale — letting you weigh Roane County against neighboring markets or the rest of West Virginia on equal footing.

For anyone buying in Roane County, the scores answer one question first — which ZIPs deserve the marketing budget, with the top reading 36/100. What supports the Roane County read is documentary: filings from the recorder and courts, federal price and bank data, and blanks wherever coverage is thin.

Drilling in, Roane County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 25071 (36/100), 25045 (34/100), 25005 (25/100), 25243 (25/100), 25251 (25/100), 25259 (25/100). DLRadar also scores 25266, 25276, 25286, 25270, 25164, 25244, 25252 across the county. Every one of these is scored independently — a ZIP's composite reflects its own recorded distress, which is why the county average alone hides where the real pressure sits.

DLRadar's composite for Roane 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.