ZIP 26032 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP code 26032 in Brooke County, West Virginia carries a composite property-distress score of 31/100 — a moderate reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. Its standout signals are construction/permit lag (100/100), structural risk (71/100), institutional ownership (55/100). mortgage stress (21/100) stay muted. Structurally it carries 71/100, against 6/100 of stress already in motion. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: flood (NFIP) exposure (86/100), FEMA disaster exposure (66/100).

Prices here sit in a expansion phase: values rose 7.5% over the trailing year (phase confidence 48/100). Even climbing markets leave specific parcels in distress; the scoring isolates them.

Home values center near $116,300, an affordability ratio of 2.2× — accessible. Roughly 5.6% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas. Median household income is $39,583, below the U.S. median near $78,000. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 23/100. Rent burden reaches 41% of tenant households. About 42% have a four-year degree. Owners hold 73% of homes, renters 27%. Population is roughly 1,109 with a median age of 21. There are about 187 housing units across 26032. The vacancy rate is 5.2%.

Net-net, 26032 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. 26032 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

The 26032 read uses the identical public-record model applied coast to coast, which means its 31/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 26032 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Brooke County, West Virginia. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 26032, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

The 31/100 figure for 26032 is a composite, not one metric: it rolls up foreclosure and pre-foreclosure activity, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, local lender headwind, and structural risk into a single reading, which is why a ZIP can look calm on price yet score high on distress. For an operator, 26032 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.