ZIP 24872 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

In Mcdowell County, West Virginia, ZIP 24872 scores 31 of 100 for composite distress, a moderate level on DLRadar's public-record index. Leading the profile are construction/permit lag (100/100), structural risk (73/100), institutional ownership (43/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (22/100). Environmental exposure also runs high (flood (NFIP) exposure (94/100), climate & FEMA risk (69/100)). The latent-versus-live split is 73/100 structural and 7/100 already moving.

Prices here sit in a expansion phase: values rose 8.0% over the trailing year (phase confidence 57/100). Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

576 residents call 24872 home, typically aged 52. Median household income is $33,285, below the U.S. median near $78,000. Owners hold 77% of homes, renters 23%. The vacancy rate is 19.3% — elevated. On demographic stress specifically, 24872 scores 34/100. Educational attainment sits at 0% bachelor's-or-above. The ZIP holds roughly 337 housing units. 21.9% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. The typical home is worth about $41,400.

On the whole, 24872 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.

No ZIP is too small to score: 24872 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 31/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 24872 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

The 31/100 for 24872 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. For a buyer, 24872 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.