ZIP 26142 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Wood County, West Virginia's ZIP 26142 registers 32/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. The most distinctive pressure shows up in construction/permit lag (75/100), structural risk (71/100), institutional ownership (51/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (20/100). The latent-versus-live split is 71/100 structural and 6/100 already moving. Environmental exposure also runs high (flood (NFIP) exposure (85/100), climate & FEMA risk (79/100)).

The contraction-phase market in 26142 posted values that fell 2.4% over the year, 2.4% off the recent peak (phase confidence 100/100). Softening prices widen the spread between distressed and market value — what acquisition buyers watch for.

The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 17/100. The typical home is worth about $113,200 (1.5× income, relatively affordable). The poverty rate is 11.0%. Around 0% of renters are cost-burdened. Around 12% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 93% of housing is owner-occupied. The ZIP holds roughly 972 housing units. Population is roughly 2,186 with a median age of 46. At $67,245, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. The vacancy rate is 3.4%.

On the whole, 26142 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.