ZIP 26534 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Monongalia County, West Virginia's ZIP 26534 registers 16/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (75/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (67/100). The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (36/100), institutional ownership (16/100), mortgage stress (8/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (16/100) and mortgage stress (8/100) register low. Structural risk reads 36/100 against active distress of 2/100.

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

A median home runs $138,300 here, or 4.3 times local income. Vacancy runs 14.3%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. About 831 people live here, median age 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. The tenure split is 57% owner-occupied to 43% rented. Roughly 33.2% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. On demographic stress specifically, 26534 scores 44/100. Rent burden reaches 70% of tenant households.

Net-net, 26534 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.