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

DLRadar tracks property distress across Taylor County, West Virginia using verifiable public-record signals alone. County-level credit and bank headwind reads 20/100. The county's ZIP scores run from 9 up to 30/100. There are 10 scored ZIPs in the county (mean composite 18/100).

The expansion-phase county posted home values that rose 6.0% over twelve months, at 44/100 phase confidence. Despite the upswing, the laggards keep building where the composite stays elevated.

Even appreciating at +6.0% YoY (44/100 confidence), stressed pockets remain which speeds resale of distressed buys. A steady 20/100 bank reading favors owner-driven distress more than bank stock.

Distress concentrates in ZIP 26431 (30/100), ZIP 26554 (28/100), ZIP 26330 (26/100), ZIP 26347 (18/100), ZIP 26354 (17/100), ZIP 26374 (14/100) — drill into any for the parcel-level read. Other tracked Taylor County ZIPs include 26416, 26440, 26424, 26435.

Underneath the scores, the Taylor County ZIPs on file come in at incomes around $66,939, 9.8% of households below the poverty line, residents with a median age around 40.6, a 9.7% vacancy rate, median home values around $173,163 (below the national figure), an owner-occupied share of 83%. Read together, they set up the depth of motivated supply and the pace of resale.

With a low 18/100 reading over 10 ZIPs, the opportunity hides below the average rather than a blanket buy. A DLRadar subscription opens every Taylor County parcel: owner, address and APN, per-parcel scoring with lender exposure and resale velocity.

Because Taylor 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 Taylor County against neighboring markets or the rest of West Virginia on equal footing.

The way to work Taylor County, West Virginia is top-down — start with the highest-scoring ZIPs (up to 30/100 here), then drill to the parcels driving those numbers, rather than blanketing Taylor County with undifferentiated outreach. What supports the Taylor County read is documentary: filings from the recorder and courts, federal price and bank data, and blanks wherever coverage is thin.

The ZIP breakdown for Taylor County leads with 26431 (30/100), 26554 (28/100), 26330 (26/100), 26347 (18/100), 26354 (17/100), 26374 (14/100). DLRadar also scores 26416, 26440, 26424, 26435 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.

The Taylor County score is not a single measure but a composite: foreclosure activity, mortgage and tax-lien stress, and local lender headwind each feed it, which is why understanding the components matters as much as the headline number.