ZIP 26534 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Scored purely from public records, 26534 (Monongalia County, West Virginia) returns a low composite of 20/100. Environmental exposure also runs high (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). By contrast, institutional ownership (15/100) and mortgage stress (8/100) register low. The split runs 45/100 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 to public records.

Big metro or rural, 26534 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. 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.