ZIP 26537 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 26537 (Preston County, West Virginia) at a low 26/100 for overall property distress. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: flood (NFIP) exposure (81/100). On the structural side it scores 61/100, with 6/100 of stress already active. Property-level stress concentrates 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 36% higher over three years (phase confidence 37/100). Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

The vacancy rate is 13.5% — elevated. Around 27% of renters are cost-burdened. Households earn a median $57,788 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. About 24% have a four-year degree. The ZIP holds roughly 2,648 housing units. About 5,392 people live here, median age 47. Roughly 15.4% live below the poverty line. A median home runs $169,900 here, or 2.9 times local income. On demographic stress specifically, 26537 scores 28/100. The tenure split is 74% owner-occupied to 26% rented.

Net-net, 26537 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.