ZIP 26623 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP code 26623 in Braxton County, West Virginia carries a composite property-distress score of 5/100 — a minimal reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. Structurally it carries 11/100, against 2/100 of stress already in motion. The sharpest non-environmental signals are structural risk (11/100), mortgage stress (6/100), institutional ownership (3/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (6/100) and institutional ownership (3/100).

The expansion-phase market in 26623 posted values that rose 8.0% over the year, at 57/100 phase confidence. Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

At $57,431, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. The poverty rate is 6.5% — low. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 40/100. About 14% have a four-year degree. Around 100% of renters are cost-burdened. Vacancy runs 15.6%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. The ZIP holds roughly 625 housing units. About 1,515 people live here, median age 34. A median home runs $100,500 here. Owners hold 95% of homes, renters 5%.

Taken together, 26623 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. No parcel file is published for 26623 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

Big metro or rural, 26623 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 5/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Braxton County, West Virginia and the nation. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 26623 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

The 5/100 figure for 26623 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. For a buyer, 26623 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.