ZIP 26338 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

DLRadar grades ZIP 26338 (Lewis County, West Virginia) at a low 20/100 for overall property distress. The split runs 45/100 structural to 3/100 active on the ground. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: flood (NFIP) exposure (88/100). Its heaviest discrete signals: institutional ownership (47/100), structural risk (45/100), construction/permit lag (17/100). On the quiet end sit construction/permit lag (17/100) and mortgage stress (9/100).

The expansion-phase market in 26338 posted values that rose 8.0% over the year (phase confidence 57/100). Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.

At $83,265, median income runs near typical U.S. levels. Owners hold 87% of homes, renters 14%. Vacancy runs 24.2%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. The typical home is worth about $114,300 (1.4× income, relatively affordable). The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 34/100. About 592 people live here, median age 38. Roughly 6.1% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas. About 10% have a four-year degree. The ZIP holds roughly 276 housing units.

Net-net, 26338 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. No parcel file is published for 26338 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

The number is not local guesswork: 26338's 20/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. Where the record is thin for 26338, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.

The 20/100 figure for 26338 is a composite, not one metric: it rolls up foreclosure and pre-foreclosure activity, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, local lender headwind, and structural risk into a single reading, which is why a ZIP can look calm on price yet score high on distress. For a buyer, 26338 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.