ZIP 24844 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

In Mcdowell County, West Virginia, ZIP 24844 scores 26 of 100 for composite distress, a low level on DLRadar's distress index. Structurally it carries 58/100, against 6/100 of stress already in motion. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: flood (NFIP) exposure (91/100), climate & FEMA risk (67/100). Its heaviest discrete signals: structural risk (58/100), construction/permit lag (50/100), institutional ownership (41/100). mortgage stress (22/100) stay muted.

The expansion-phase market in 24844 posted values that rose 8.0% over the year, at 57/100 phase confidence. Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

1,070 residents call 24844 home, typically aged 53. Around 0% of renters are cost-burdened. The typical home is worth about $66,500 (2.6× income, relatively affordable). Owners hold 86% of homes, renters 14%. The vacancy rate is 34.2% — elevated. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 31/100. There are about 568 housing units across 24844. Educational attainment sits at 5% bachelor's-or-above. Roughly 42.0% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. Median household income is $25,344, below the U.S. median near $78,000.

Net-net, 24844 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. While 24844 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.

No ZIP is too small to score: 24844 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 26/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed as records update; 24844 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

Each component behind 24844 - foreclosure, mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, lender pullback, structural exposure - is graded on its own before the 26/100 roll-up. For a buyer, 24844 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.