ZIP 26505 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 26505 (Monongalia County, West Virginia) at a low 16/100 for overall property distress. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (75/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (67/100)). Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (36/100), institutional ownership (16/100), mortgage stress (8/100). On the quiet end sit institutional ownership (16/100) and mortgage stress (8/100). Structural risk reads 36/100 against active distress of 2/100.

The expansion-phase market in 26505 posted values that rose 5.7% over the year, 2.5% off the recent peak, and 10% higher over three years, at 37/100 phase confidence. Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.

Population is roughly 37,691 with a median age of 25. The typical home is worth about $278,000 (6.3× income). 33% of housing is owner-occupied. There are about 18,730 housing units across 26505. At $42,275, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. The poverty rate is 32.8% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. Rent burden reaches 51% of tenant households. Around 55% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Vacancy runs 14.7%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 46/100.

On the whole, 26505 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.