ZIP 26501 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Composite property distress in 26501 (Monongalia County, West Virginia) lands at 16/100 — low on DLRadar's public-record scoring. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (75/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (67/100). The sharpest non-environmental signals are structural risk (36/100), institutional ownership (16/100), mortgage stress (8/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (16/100) and mortgage stress (8/100) register low. Structural risk reads 36/100 against active distress of 2/100.

The market reads expansion — home values rose 5.7% year on year, 2.5% off the recent peak, and 9% higher over three years, at 37/100 phase confidence. Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

There are about 9,823 housing units across 26501. Vacancy runs 8.9%. The tenure split is 60% owner-occupied to 40% rented. About 45% have a four-year degree. On demographic stress specifically, 26501 scores 30/100. Rent burden reaches 37% of tenant households. A median home runs $219,800 here, or 3.4 times local income. Roughly 16.5% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. About 19,640 people live here, median age 40. Households earn a median $62,173 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure.

Net-net, 26501 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.