ZIP 25517 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Wayne County, West Virginia's ZIP 25517 registers 29/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: flood (NFIP) exposure (80/100), climate & FEMA risk (76/100). The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (65/100), construction/permit lag (59/100), institutional ownership (49/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (20/100) register low. Structural exposure scores 65 and live distress 6 on the 0–100 scale.

The market reads expansion — home values rose 7.2% year on year, at 41/100 phase confidence. Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

About 1,328 people live here, median age 45. The tenure split is 83% owner-occupied to 17% rented. A median home runs $94,200 here, or 1.3 times local income. Rent burden reaches 57% of tenant households. Vacancy runs 20.8%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. About 11% have a four-year degree. On demographic stress specifically, 25517 scores 29/100. There are about 801 housing units across 25517. Households earn a median $40,781 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Roughly 18.9% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory.

Net-net, 25517 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.