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

Wood County, WV, West Virginia: 13 ZIP codes scored, Wood County, WV averaging 26/100 (low, Wood, WV), from 9 to 29. Wood County, WV is in its expansion phase (Wood, WV confidence 94/100): Wood, WV home prices up 8.0% (Wood, WV) over twelve months. Wood County, WV lender headwind: 46/100.

Highest-scoring Wood County, WV ZIPs: 26101 (29/100), 26104 (29/100), 26105 (29/100), 26133 (29/100), 26142 (29/100), 26150 (29/100). Also scored in Wood County, WV: 26169, 26181, 26187, 26184, 26180, 26164, 26143.

Across Wood County, WV's scored ZIPs: median home value $152,292, household income $57,416, 11.0% vacancy, 12.2% poverty, 81% owner-occupied, median age 44.6.

Wood County, WV insurance distress 70/100 (#628 in the US); FEMA hazard 63/100 for Wood, WV; 6 federal disaster declarations in Wood County, WV since 2023 (3 flood); 12 Wood, WV NFIP flood claims, $271K paid; Wood, WV construction distress 63/100.

8 banks with 23 branches lend in Wood County, WV; Wood, WV weighted bank stress 58/100, highest 85/100 in Wood, WV.

Wood County, WV unemployment 4.1% (Wood, WV -1.6 pts, six months); 102 new housing units permitted in Wood County, WV over twelve months, Wood, WV down 14% from 118; Wood, WV home prices +7.2% a year (Wood, WV) over three years.

40,283 housing units in Wood County, WV; 9,134 Wood, WV renter households; 44% of Wood, WV renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 17% (Wood, WV) half or more.

Wood County, WV ranks #541 nationally on the opportunity index (Wood, WV, among all ranked counties); Wood, WV scores 33.2/100 and Wood, WV sits #11 inside West Virginia. Wood, WV is in the peak_opportunity opportunity phase; Wood, WV's primary driver is construction, Wood, WV second driver vacancy; Wood, WV moved up 421 places. 5 short-sale listings across Wood, WV; 85 days on market observed in Wood, WV; 11.3% vacancy over 13 Wood, WV ZIPs.

No CFPB county sample covers Wood County, WV. The non-metro area reading for Wood, WV: 1.2% ninety-plus days late; Wood, WV's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 3.9% (Wood, WV, December 2025 data); West Virginia overall 1.1%.

Wood County, WV has 3 watched banks; 3 Wood, WV banks sit in an elevated band. Wood, WV footprints: Williamstown Bank Inc (4 branches, stress 78) in Wood, WV; Community Bk Of Parkersburg (4 branches, stress 66) in Wood, WV; Wesbanco Bank Inc (3 branches, stress 44) in Wood, WV.

HUD lists 6 assisted multifamily properties in Wood County, WV with 302 units; 256 Wood, WV units are assisted, 3 Wood, WV properties under project-based Section 8.

4,447 of the 40,283 housing units in Wood, WV sit vacant. Wood County, WV permitted 5 multifamily units in twelve months; Wood, WV's one-to-four unit structures added 97 units in Wood County, WV.