ZIP 26562 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Scored purely from public records, 26562 (Wetzel County, West Virginia) returns a low composite of 20/100. The pressure is most legible in structural risk (43/100), institutional ownership (42/100), mortgage stress (17/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (17/100) register low. Structurally it carries 43/100, against 5/100 of stress already in motion. Environmental exposure also runs high (flood (NFIP) exposure (82/100), climate & FEMA risk (61/100)).

The market reads expansion — home values rose 7.6% year on year, at 57/100 phase confidence. Even climbing markets leave specific parcels in distress; the scoring isolates them.

Educational attainment sits at 5% bachelor's-or-above. Vacancy runs 19.4%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Rent burden reaches 0% of tenant households. The tenure split is 83% owner-occupied to 17% rented. On demographic stress specifically, 26562 scores 29/100. The typical home is worth about $87,300. Roughly 25.2% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. The ZIP holds roughly 322 housing units. About 830 people live here, median age 15.

On the whole, 26562 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. There is no property file for 26562 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable public records.

No ZIP is too small to score: 26562 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 20/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. 26562 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.

The 20/100 figure for 26562 is a composite, not one metric: it rolls up foreclosure and pre-foreclosure activity, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, local lender headwind, and structural risk into a single reading, which is why a ZIP can look calm on price yet score high on distress. Treat 26562 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.