ZIP 26519 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 26519 (Preston County, West Virginia) at a low 26/100 for overall property distress. Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (100/100), structural risk (61/100), institutional ownership (44/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (19/100) register low. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: flood (NFIP) exposure (81/100). On the structural side it scores 61/100, with 6/100 of stress already active.

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

Households earn a median $52,440 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Roughly 21.5% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. About 2,126 people live here, median age 42. Around 71% of renters are cost-burdened. About 12% have a four-year degree. The tenure split is 72% owner-occupied to 28% rented. The ZIP holds roughly 883 housing units. On demographic stress specifically, 26519 scores 34/100. A median home runs $128,500 here, or 2.1 times local income. The vacancy rate is 6.1%.

Net-net, 26519 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.