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

Wood County, West Virginia sits inside DLRadar's nationwide distress index, built entirely from public records. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 46/100 (moderate). 13 ZIP codes are tracked county-wide, averaging 27/100 distress. Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 10 to 30 out of 100.

Currently expansion, Wood County saw prices rise 8.0% year over year, a 94/100-confidence read. Even as prices climb, a subset takes on water which the scoring still flags.

With growth of +8.0% YoY (94/100 confidence), distress still hides in specific ZIPs so buy those and momentum helps on exit. A mid-cycle 46/100 lender reading means both signal sets in play here.

Highest scores land in 26101 (30/100), 26104 (30/100), 26105 (30/100), 26133 (30/100), 26142 (30/100), 26150 (30/100); each opens to a full parcel breakdown. Also scored across the county: 26169, 26181, 26187, 26180, 26184, 26164, 26143.

On the housing-and-income side, the Wood County ZIPs on file show a 11% vacancy rate, poverty running near 12.2%, typical home values near $152,292, 81% owner-occupancy, a median household income near $57,416 (below the US norm), a median age of 44.6. Read together, they frame how much distress reaches the market and how fast it moves.

Net of it all, 27/100 over 13 ZIPs means the edge is selective acquisition and not a county-wide play. Inside DLRadar, each Wood County property carries owner, address and APN, scoring, lienholder detail and an estimated exit speed.

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

For an acquisition buyer, the practical use of Wood County, West Virginia's scores is triage: the ZIPs and parcels carrying the highest composite are where motivated sellers and below-market exits concentrate, while lower-scored areas rarely justify the marketing spend. Nothing in the Wood County read is modelled: recorder and court filings drive foreclosure and lien signals, FHFA sets the price cycle, FDIC the lender stress, and a thin source stays blank.

Drilling in, Wood County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 26101 (30/100), 26104 (30/100), 26105 (30/100), 26133 (30/100), 26142 (30/100), 26150 (30/100). DLRadar also scores 26169, 26181, 26187, 26180, 26184, 26164, 26143 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.

Under Wood 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.