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

Across Brown County, Illinois, DLRadar grades every ZIP for foreclosure, mortgage, tax and bank-stress distress. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 64/100 (elevated). Coverage runs to 5 ZIPs across Brown County, a minimal 12/100 average. Individual Brown County ZIPs score between 9 and 17 on the 0–100 composite.

The expansion-phase county posted home values that rose 5.3% over twelve months, a 34/100-confidence read. Under a rising market, a subset takes on water so the laggard ZIPs are the opening.

Even appreciating at +5.3% YoY (34/100 confidence), liquidity improves for clean exits where the scoring still flags pressure. Its 64/100 lender headwind favors patient capital: expect more lender-driven inventory soon.

Top distress by ZIP runs 62324 (17/100), 62323 (13/100), 62353 (10/100), 62375 (9/100), 62378 (9/100), listed with every scored ZIP below.

By the numbers, Brown County's tracked footprint report household income averaging about $71,886, roughly at the national median, 8.8% of households below the poverty line, 11.4% of units sitting vacant, an owner-occupied share of 83%, home values averaging roughly $127,760, below the US, residents with a median age around 44.7. Income, equity and tenure like these shape where pressure builds and how liquid the exit will be.

Brown County, Illinois's 12/100 average over 5 ZIPs says Brown County rewards parcel-by-parcel work for a disciplined buyer. A DLRadar subscription opens every Brown County parcel: owner, address and APN, a distress reading, the lender on title and exit timing.

Whether Brown County, Illinois carries heavy distress or only a handful of flagged parcels, every score here is built the same deterministic way — from recorded foreclosures, tax delinquency, liens and lender stress — so Brown County can be compared directly against any county in the country.

Read Brown County, Illinois as a heat map for effort — the county's minimal composite of 12/100 hides wide ZIP-level variation, and the return comes from chasing the hot ZIPs, not the average. All of it is deterministic and auditable: Brown County's numbers come from county recorders, the courts, FHFA and FDIC, with nothing interpolated or guessed when a source is sparse.

The ZIP breakdown for Brown County leads with 62324 (17/100), 62323 (13/100), 62353 (10/100), 62375 (9/100), 62378 (9/100). Because each ZIP is graded on its own foreclosure, tax and lender record, the county's distress is best read code by code rather than as a single number.

DLRadar's composite for Brown County blends several independent signals — foreclosure and pre-foreclosure filings, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, and the bank-stress headwind of the lenders operating locally — into one 0–100 score per ZIP, so a market can rank high on one axis and low on another.