ZIP 26101 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

DLRadar grades ZIP 26101 (Wood County, West Virginia) at a low 29/100 for overall property distress. The latent-versus-live split is 66/100 structural and 6/100 already moving. Environmental exposure also runs high (flood (NFIP) exposure (81/100), climate & FEMA risk (79/100)). Its heaviest discrete signals: structural risk (66/100), construction/permit lag (64/100), institutional ownership (46/100). mortgage stress (20/100) stay muted.

The market reads expansion — home values rose 8.0% year on year, and 16% higher over three years, at 94/100 phase confidence. Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

There are about 13,872 housing units across 26101. At $45,556, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. About 28,571 people live here, median age 41. Rent burden reaches 43% of tenant households. Owners hold 66% of homes, renters 34%. Vacancy runs 13.7%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 32/100. About 16% have a four-year degree. Home values center near $117,500, an affordability ratio of 2.4× — accessible. Roughly 23.1% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory.

Net-net, 26101 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. There is no property file for 26101 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable records.

The 26101 read uses the identical scoring model applied coast to coast, which means its 29/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 26101 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Wood County, West Virginia. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 26101 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

The 29/100 for 26101 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. The point of the 26101 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.