ZIP 26039 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Marshall County, West Virginia's ZIP 26039 registers 32/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: flood (NFIP) exposure (78/100), FEMA disaster exposure (64/100). The most distinctive pressure shows up in construction/permit lag (100/100), structural risk (73/100), institutional ownership (66/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (26/100) register low. Structural risk reads 73/100 against active distress of 8/100.

The market reads neutral — home values rose 6.5% year on year, 3.2% off the recent peak, at 54/100 phase confidence. Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

About 383 people live here, median age 66. Households earn a median $42,000 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. The tenure split is 68% owner-occupied to 33% rented. Rent burden reaches 100% of tenant households. Vacancy runs 35.7%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. About 34% have a four-year degree. A median home runs $191,700 here, or 4.6 times local income. On demographic stress specifically, 26039 scores 48/100. There are about 255 housing units across 26039. Roughly 24.3% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory.

Net-net, 26039 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.