ZIP 26205 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Scored purely from public records, 26205 (Nicholas County, West Virginia) returns a minimal composite of 12/100. Structurally it carries 25/100, against 4/100 of stress already in motion. The pressure is most legible in structural risk (25/100), institutional ownership (23/100), mortgage stress (14/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (23/100) and mortgage stress (14/100) register low.

The market reads expansion — home values rose 8.0% year on year, at 57/100 phase confidence. Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

Median household income is $30,757, below the U.S. median near $78,000. Around 10% of renters are cost-burdened. Vacancy runs 25.4%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Around 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The poverty rate is 15.6%. 74% of housing is owner-occupied. On demographic stress specifically, 26205 scores 28/100. About 2,257 people live here, median age 53. The typical home is worth about $81,000 (3.2× income, relatively affordable). The ZIP holds roughly 1,673 housing units.

Net-net, 26205 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.

No ZIP is too small to score: 26205 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 12/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. 26205 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.

26205'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 a buyer, 26205 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.