ZIP 26547 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

In Preston County, West Virginia, ZIP 26547 scores 15 of 100 for composite distress, a low level on DLRadar's public-record index. The latent-versus-live split is 34/100 structural and 6/100 already moving. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: flood (NFIP) exposure (81/100). Its heaviest discrete signals: institutional ownership (40/100), structural risk (34/100), mortgage stress (19/100). structural risk (34/100) and mortgage stress (19/100) stay muted.

Prices here sit in a expansion phase: values rose 6.7% over the trailing year (phase confidence 55/100). Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.

About 3,001 people live here, median age 39. A median home runs $204,000 here, or 2.8 times local income. Educational attainment sits at 18% bachelor's-or-above. Households earn a median $67,284 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. The vacancy rate is 10.1%. The ZIP holds roughly 1,191 housing units. Owners hold 78% of homes, renters 22%. Rent burden reaches 47% of tenant households. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 30/100. Roughly 10.2% live below the poverty line.

Net-net, 26547 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.

The number is not local guesswork: 26547's 15/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. Where the public record is thin for 26547, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.

Each component behind 26547 - foreclosure, mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, lender pullback, structural exposure - is graded on its own before the 15/100 roll-up. For an operator, 26547 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.