ZIP 26031 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Scored on a fixed 0-100 scale, 26031 (Marshall County, West Virginia) returns a moderate composite of 31/100. Structural risk reads 71/100 against active distress of 8/100. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: flood (NFIP) exposure (71/100). Its standout signals are construction/permit lag (100/100), structural risk (71/100), institutional ownership (63/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (26/100).

Prices here sit in a contraction phase: values held roughly flat over the trailing year, at 42/100 phase confidence. Falling values surface more motivated sellers and below-market exits.

Owners hold 66% of homes, renters 34%. The ZIP holds roughly 941 housing units. Population is roughly 1,556 with a median age of 45. Rent burden reaches 25% of tenant households. Home values center near $78,300, an affordability ratio of 1.9× — accessible. Vacancy runs 17.5%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Educational attainment sits at 14% bachelor's-or-above. 22.4% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 28/100. Median household income is $50,474, below the U.S. median near $78,000.

On the whole, 26031 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.

Big metro or rural, 26031 runs through one identical scoring model, so its 31/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Marshall County, West Virginia and the nation. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 26031, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

Behind 26031's composite sit distinct signals (foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender and structural), each scored on its own before rolling up, so two ZIPs with the same total can describe very different situations on the ground. Treat 26031 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.