ZIP 26142 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Wood County, West Virginia's ZIP 26142 registers 29/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. Its heaviest discrete signals: structural risk (66/100), construction/permit lag (64/100), institutional ownership (46/100). mortgage stress (20/100) stay muted. The latent-versus-live split is 66/100 structural and 6/100 already moving. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: flood (NFIP) exposure (81/100), climate & FEMA risk (79/100).

Prices here sit in a expansion phase: values rose 8.0% over the trailing year (phase confidence 94/100). Even climbing markets leave specific parcels in distress; the scoring isolates them.

On demographic stress specifically, 26142 scores 17/100. A median home runs $113,200 here, or 1.5 times local income. 11.0% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Around 0% of renters are cost-burdened. Educational attainment sits at 12% bachelor's-or-above. Owners hold 93% of homes, renters 7%. The ZIP holds roughly 972 housing units. 2,186 residents call 26142 home, typically aged 46. At $67,245, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. The vacancy rate is 3.4%.

Overall, 26142 shows a mixed profile — neither uniformly stressed nor insulated — so opportunity is property-specific. There is no property file for 26142 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable records.

Big metro or rural, 26142 runs through one identical scoring model, so its 29/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Wood County, West Virginia and the nation. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed as records update; 26142 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

The 29/100 figure for 26142 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. In workflow terms, 26142 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.