ZIP 26525 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Preston County, West Virginia's ZIP 26525 registers 26/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. Structural exposure scores 61 and live distress 6 on the 0–100 scale. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: flood (NFIP) exposure (81/100). The most distinctive pressure shows up in construction/permit lag (100/100), structural risk (61/100), institutional ownership (44/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (19/100) register low.

The market reads expansion — home values rose 5.7% year on year, 2.5% off the recent peak, and 22% higher over three years, at 37/100 phase confidence. Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

A median home runs $216,100 here, or 2.5 times local income. Vacancy runs 12.2%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. About 8,390 people live here, median age 41. On demographic stress specifically, 26525 scores 23/100. About 17% have a four-year degree. Roughly 8.1% live below the poverty line. There are about 2,421 housing units across 26525. Rent burden reaches 19% of tenant households. The tenure split is 88% owner-occupied to 12% rented. Households earn a median $80,938 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure.

Net-net, 26525 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.