ZIP 26237 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Upshur County, West Virginia's ZIP 26237 registers 22/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. Structural risk reads 53/100 against active distress of 3/100. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: flood (NFIP) exposure (76/100). The most distinctive pressure shows up in construction/permit lag (100/100), structural risk (53/100), institutional ownership (17/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (17/100) and mortgage stress (9/100) register low.

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

About 11% have a four-year degree. There are about 252 housing units across 26237. Roughly 0.0% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas. About 556 people live here, median age 38. Vacancy runs 31.4%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. A median home runs $117,700 here, or 1.4 times local income. Households earn a median $77,935 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure. On demographic stress specifically, 26237 scores 21/100. The tenure split is 100% owner-occupied to 0% rented.

Net-net, 26237 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.