Boone County, IL: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Boone County, Illinois is scored end-to-end by DLRadar for property distress, drawn only from deterministic public records. Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 13 to 28 out of 100. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 83/100 (elevated). Coverage runs to 15 ZIPs across Boone County, a low 20/100 average.

In its expansion phase, Boone County home prices rose 8.1% across the last year, at 44/100 phase confidence. Despite the upswing, pockets of distress persist and the breakdown below pinpoints them.

With growth of +8.1% YoY (44/100 confidence), well-bought parcels resell faster where the scoring still flags pressure. Bank stress at 83/100 is a buyer tailwind: short sales and foreclosures accelerate.

Leading Boone County on distress: 61073 (28/100), 61111 (28/100), 61107 (27/100), 61114 (26/100), 60033 (24/100), 61080 (24/100). Further scored ZIPs: 61016, 60135, 60145, 60146, 61011, 61038, 61008, 61012, 61065.

By the numbers, Boone County's tracked footprint report 4.5% of units sitting vacant, poverty running near 9.8%, 80% owner-occupancy, a median age of 40.2, home values averaging roughly $221,067, below the US, incomes around $81,450. Income, equity and tenure like these frame the supply of motivated sellers and the speed of resale.

Net of it all, 20/100 over 15 ZIPs means the edge is selective acquisition for a disciplined buyer. A DLRadar subscription opens every Boone County parcel: owner, address and APN, a parcel-level score plus bank exposure and liquidity read.

Because Boone County, Illinois is scored on the identical public-record model used nationwide, even a quiet county is measured on one scale — letting you weigh Boone County against neighboring markets or the rest of Illinois on equal footing.

Approach Boone County by rank rather than by average — the 20/100 county figure conceals the spread, since the returns live in the top-scoring ZIPs. The Boone County read is rebuilt from public records as they post — no modeling fills the gaps — so what you see is what the documents support, refreshed on each ingest.

Drilling in, Boone County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 61073 (28/100), 61111 (28/100), 61107 (27/100), 61114 (26/100), 60033 (24/100), 61080 (24/100). DLRadar also scores 61016, 60135, 60145, 60146, 61011, 61038, 61008, 61012 and more across the county. Every one of these is scored independently — a ZIP's composite reflects its own recorded distress, which is why the county average alone hides where the real pressure sits.

Under Boone County's headline composite sit distinct layers — recorded foreclosures, tax and lien delinquency, mortgage stress and bank headwind — each scored separately before they roll up, so the same total can describe very different markets.