ZIP 26440 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Taylor County, West Virginia · Distress market
In Taylor County, West Virginia, ZIP 26440 scores 12 of 100 for composite distress, a minimal level on DLRadar's public-record index. On the structural side it scores 28/100, with 3/100 of stress already active. What sets it apart are the readings on structural risk (28/100), institutional ownership (23/100), construction/permit lag (22/100). On the quiet end sit construction/permit lag (22/100) and mortgage stress (11/100). It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: flood (NFIP) exposure (60/100).
Prices here sit in a expansion phase: values rose 6.6% over the trailing year (phase confidence 50/100). Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.
There are about 489 housing units across 26440. A median home runs $216,800 here, or 3.0 times local income. 92% of housing is owner-occupied. Median household income is $63,063, below the U.S. median near $78,000. Educational attainment sits at 20% bachelor's-or-above. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 29/100. The vacancy rate is 11.7% — elevated. Rent burden reaches 53% of tenant households. About 1,364 people live here, median age 37. Roughly 5.8% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas.
On balance 26440 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. No parcel file is published for 26440 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.
Whether 26440 runs hot or quiet, its 12/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 26440 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Taylor County, West Virginia or nationwide. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 26440, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.
The 12/100 figure for 26440 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. Practically, 26440 works as a screen — verify the reading, drill to the specific parcels driving it, and carry the deal through capital and closing on the platform.
Signal-by-signal read on 26440
Unpaid tax, corporate ownership share, insurance cost pressure, NFIP flood risk, construction slowdown, price gaps and auction turnover — plus the 0 individual distressed properties — each with owner, address, APN, its own distress score and an exit read — are in the full report.
The 26440 distress snapshot
The live 26440 panel — distress score, market phase, housing and bank pressure — as attached to every individual property.
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