ZIP 26521 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

In Monongalia County, West Virginia, ZIP 26521 scores 20 of 100 for composite distress, a low level on DLRadar's public-record index. The split runs 45/100 structural to 2/100 active on the ground. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (75/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (66/100). The sharpest non-environmental signals are structural risk (45/100), construction/permit lag (39/100), institutional ownership (15/100). institutional ownership (15/100) and mortgage stress (8/100) stay muted.

The market reads expansion — home values rose 6.7% year on year (phase confidence 55/100). Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

Households earn a median $78,750 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure. Around 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The poverty rate is 11.8%. The ZIP holds roughly 71 housing units. The vacancy rate is 15.6% — elevated. On demographic stress specifically, 26521 scores 19/100. Population is roughly 119 with a median age of 63. The typical home is worth about $70,000 (1.4× income, relatively affordable). The tenure split is 89% owner-occupied to 11% rented.

On the whole, 26521 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. No parcel file is published for 26521 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

Big metro or rural, 26521 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 20/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Monongalia County, West Virginia and the nation. 26521 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.

26521's score blends several independent layers — foreclosure and mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, bank headwind and structural exposure — into one 0–100 number, so understanding the components matters as much as the headline for anyone screening the ZIP. The point of the 26521 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.