ZIP 26681 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Nicholas County, West Virginia's ZIP 26681 registers 12/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as minimal. On the structural side it scores 25/100, with 4/100 of stress already active. Leading the profile are structural risk (25/100), institutional ownership (23/100), mortgage stress (14/100). On the quiet end sit institutional ownership (23/100) and mortgage stress (14/100).

The market reads expansion — home values rose 8.0% year on year (phase confidence 57/100). Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

Population is roughly 1,098 with a median age of 48. 95% of housing is owner-occupied. About 2% have a four-year degree. The ZIP holds roughly 437 housing units. A median home runs $70,700 here, or 1.9 times local income. At $30,030, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. Roughly 28.1% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. Vacancy runs 0.0%. On demographic stress specifically, 26681 scores 26/100.

Taken together, 26681 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. There is no property file for 26681 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable public records.

No ZIP is too small to score: 26681 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 12/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 26681 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

26681's score blends several independent layers — foreclosure and mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, bank headwind and structural exposure — into one 0–100 number, so understanding the components matters as much as the headline for anyone screening the ZIP. Treat 26681 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.