ZIP 26534 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Monongalia County, West Virginia · High Vacancy market
Scored on a fixed 0-100 scale, 26534 (Monongalia County, West Virginia) returns a low composite of 19/100. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (75/100)). The sharpest non-environmental signals are structural risk (43/100), construction/permit lag (34/100), institutional ownership (14/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (14/100) and mortgage stress (8/100) register low. The split runs 43/100 structural to 2/100 active on the ground.
Prices here sit in a expansion phase: values rose 6.7% over the trailing year (phase confidence 55/100). Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.
The typical home is worth about $138,300 (4.3× income). The vacancy rate is 14.3% — elevated. 831 residents call 26534 home, typically aged 32. About 13% have a four-year degree. There are about 474 housing units across 26534. Households earn a median $31,658 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. 57% of housing is owner-occupied. Roughly 33.2% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. On demographic stress specifically, 26534 scores 44/100. Around 70% of renters are cost-burdened.
Taken together, 26534 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. Parcel-level detail for 26534 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced.
Big metro or rural, 26534 runs through one identical scoring model, so its 19/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Monongalia County, West Virginia and the nation. 26534 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.
26534's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. For a buyer, 26534 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.
What is driving ZIP 26534’s distress
Unpaid tax, corporate ownership share, insurance cost pressure, NFIP flood risk, construction slowdown, price gaps and auction turnover — plus the 0 individual distressed properties — each with owner, address, APN, its own distress score and an exit read — are in the full report.
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