ZIP 26034 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

In Hancock County, West Virginia, ZIP 26034 scores 18 of 100 for composite distress, a low level on DLRadar's distress index. Its heaviest discrete signals: institutional ownership (56/100), structural risk (40/100), mortgage stress (23/100). mortgage stress (23/100) stay muted. The latent-versus-live split is 40/100 structural and 7/100 already moving. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — flood (NFIP) exposure (70/100).

The market reads expansion — home values rose 8.5% year on year, at 58/100 phase confidence. Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.

Households earn a median $57,382 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. The ZIP holds roughly 2,467 housing units. Roughly 13.9% live below the poverty line. Vacancy runs 9.6%. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 26/100. Educational attainment sits at 23% bachelor's-or-above. Rent burden reaches 41% of tenant households. The typical home is worth about $138,400 (2.0× income, relatively affordable). 80% of housing is owner-occupied. About 4,555 people live here, median age 50.

Net-net, 26034 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.

Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 26034's 18/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Hancock County, West Virginia or any ZIP coast to coast. Sparse data for 26034 shows as blanks, never estimates, and the score updates on every fresh public filing.

Each component behind 26034 - foreclosure, mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, lender pullback, structural exposure - is graded on its own before the 18/100 roll-up. For a buyer, 26034 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.