ZIP 26524 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Preston County, West Virginia · High Poverty market
ZIP code 26524 in Preston County, West Virginia carries a composite property-distress score of 15/100 — a low reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. Property-level stress concentrates in institutional ownership (40/100), structural risk (34/100), mortgage stress (19/100). By contrast, structural risk (34/100) and mortgage stress (19/100) register low. Latent structural risk is 34/100 while live distress already moving reads 6/100. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: flood (NFIP) exposure (81/100).
The expansion-phase market in 26524 posted values that rose 6.7% over the year, at 55/100 phase confidence. Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.
About 135 people live here, median age 59. Home values center near $112,500, an affordability ratio of 13.7× — stretched. Roughly 80.0% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. 74% of housing is owner-occupied. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 69/100. The ZIP holds roughly 50 housing units. Median household income is $11,438, below the U.S. median near $78,000. Vacancy runs 0.0%. About 5% have a four-year degree.
On the whole, 26524 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. No parcel file is published for 26524 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.
No ZIP is too small to score: 26524 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 15/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. 26524 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.
Behind 26524's composite sit distinct signals (foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender and structural), each scored on its own before rolling up, so two ZIPs with the same total can describe very different situations on the ground. For an operator, 26524 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.
Signal-by-signal read on 26524
Tax delinquency, institutional ownership, insurance pressure, NFIP/flood, construction lag, price dislocation and auction velocity — plus the 0 individual distressed properties — each with owner, address, APN, its own distress score and an exit read — are in the full report.
26524 at a glance
Live ZIP-level distress, market-phase, housing and bank-pressure read — the same report attached to every property.
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