ZIP 26508 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

DLRadar grades ZIP 26508 (Monongalia County, West Virginia) at a low 20/100 for overall property distress. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (75/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (66/100). Structurally it carries 45/100, against 2/100 of stress already in motion. Its heaviest discrete signals: structural risk (45/100), construction/permit lag (39/100), institutional ownership (15/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (15/100) and mortgage stress (8/100) register low.

Prices here sit in a expansion phase: values rose 6.7% over the trailing year, and 15% higher over three years (phase confidence 55/100). Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

Households earn a median $83,247 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure. About 50% have a four-year degree. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 29/100. Home values center near $311,500, an affordability ratio of 3.5× — accessible. Roughly 14.2% live below the poverty line. Owners hold 75% of homes, renters 25%. About 39,356 people live here, median age 37. Vacancy runs 6.8%. Around 48% of renters are cost-burdened. There are about 17,286 housing units across 26508.

On balance, 26508 reads as a higher-equity, stable market where distress is selective and worth pinpointing parcel by parcel. 26508 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

No ZIP is too small to score: 26508 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 20/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Sparse data for 26508 shows as blanks, never estimates, and the score updates on every fresh public filing.

The 20/100 for 26508 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. Treat 26508 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.