ZIP 26159 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 26159 (Wetzel County, West Virginia) at a low 20/100 for overall property distress. Property-level stress concentrates in institutional ownership (53/100), structural risk (44/100), mortgage stress (22/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (22/100) register low. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: flood (NFIP) exposure (85/100), FEMA disaster exposure (64/100). On the structural side it scores 44/100, with 7/100 of stress already active.

The market reads expansion — home values rose 7.0% year on year (phase confidence 36/100). Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

Around 9% of renters are cost-burdened. The ZIP holds roughly 1,128 housing units. Households earn a median $54,113 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. On demographic stress specifically, 26159 scores 22/100. Roughly 11.8% live below the poverty line. About 17% have a four-year degree. The tenure split is 79% owner-occupied to 21% rented. The vacancy rate is 14.6% — elevated. About 2,523 people live here, median age 40. A median home runs $104,100 here, or 1.9 times local income.

Net-net, 26159 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.