ZIP 26444 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Preston County, West Virginia's ZIP 26444 registers 26/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. Structural exposure scores 61 and live distress 6 on the 0–100 scale. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: flood (NFIP) exposure (81/100). The most distinctive pressure shows up in construction/permit lag (100/100), structural risk (61/100), institutional ownership (44/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (19/100) register low.

The market reads expansion — home values rose 5.7% year on year, 2.5% off the recent peak, at 37/100 phase confidence. Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

There are about 1,793 housing units across 26444. The tenure split is 86% owner-occupied to 14% rented. About 3,300 people live here, median age 47. Rent burden reaches 0% of tenant households. Roughly 16.0% live below the poverty line. On demographic stress specifically, 26444 scores 23/100. A median home runs $119,800 here, or 2.4 times local income. Households earn a median $46,667 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Vacancy runs 18.9%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. About 13% have a four-year degree.

Net-net, 26444 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.