ZIP 26298 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Webster County, West Virginia · High Vacancy market
DLRadar grades ZIP 26298 (Webster County, West Virginia) at a minimal 10/100 for overall property distress. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (23/100), institutional ownership (18/100). On the quiet end sit structural risk (23/100) and institutional ownership (18/100). Climate and flood risk are elevated too — flood (NFIP) exposure (78/100). Structural exposure scores 23 and live distress 0 on the 0–100 scale.
The expansion-phase market in 26298 posted values that rose 8.0% over the year (phase confidence 57/100). Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.
On demographic stress specifically, 26298 scores 43/100. The ZIP holds roughly 130 housing units. About 29 people live here, median age 80. 27.6% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Owners hold 100% of homes, renters 0%. The vacancy rate is 81.0% — elevated. Around 0% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher.
On the whole, 26298 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. Parcel-level detail for 26298 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced to public records.
No ZIP is too small to score: 26298 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 10/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 26298 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.
Each component behind 26298 - foreclosure, mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, lender pullback, structural exposure - is graded on its own before the 10/100 roll-up. The point of the 26298 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.
What is driving ZIP 26298’s distress
Tax arrears, institutional buyers, insurance load, flood exposure, stalled construction, dislocated pricing and auction velocity — together with the 0 individual distressed properties — each with owner, address, APN, its own distress score and an exit read — are in the full report.
Snapshot: 26298 by the numbers
A live read on 26298: distress, market phase, housing and bank pressure — identical to the report behind every parcel.
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