ZIP 26161 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Composite property distress in 26161 (Ritchie County, West Virginia) lands at 17/100 — low on DLRadar's public-record scoring. The pressure is most legible in construction/permit lag (75/100), structural risk (39/100), institutional ownership (33/100). structural risk (39/100) and institutional ownership (33/100) stay muted. On the structural side it scores 39/100, with 0/100 of stress already active.

Prices here sit in a expansion phase: values rose 8.0% over the trailing year (phase confidence 57/100). Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.

Around 12% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. About 490 people live here, median age 60. Vacancy runs 13.2%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. There are about 186 housing units across 26161. On demographic stress specifically, 26161 scores 30/100. Owners hold 100% of homes, renters 0%. Median household income is $50,568, below the U.S. median near $78,000. A median home runs $162,500 here, or 3.5 times local income. 24.5% of residents fall below the poverty threshold.

Net-net, 26161 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. While 26161 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.

The number is not local guesswork: 26161's 17/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 26161, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

26161's score blends several independent layers — foreclosure and mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, bank headwind and structural exposure — into one 0–100 number, so understanding the components matters as much as the headline for anyone screening the ZIP. For an operator, 26161 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.