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

Brown County, IL, Illinois: 5 ZIP codes scored, Brown County, IL averaging 11/100 (minimal, Brown, IL), from 9 to 18. Brown County, IL is in its expansion phase (Brown, IL confidence 34/100): Brown, IL home prices up 5.3% (Brown, IL) over twelve months. Brown County, IL lender headwind: 64/100.

Highest-scoring Brown County, IL ZIPs: 62324 (18/100), 62323 (12/100), 62353 (9/100), 62375 (9/100), 62378 (9/100).

Across Brown County, IL's scored ZIPs: median home value $127,760, household income $71,886, 11.4% vacancy, 8.8% poverty, 83% owner-occupied, median age 44.7.

Brown County, IL insurance distress 0/100 (#2,608 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Brown, IL; Brown, IL construction distress 83/100.

4 banks with 5 branches lend in Brown County, IL; Brown, IL weighted bank stress 67/100, highest 79/100 in Brown, IL.

Brown County, IL unemployment 2.6% (Brown, IL -1.4 pts, six months); 4 new housing units permitted in Brown County, IL over twelve months, Brown, IL down 33% from 6; Brown, IL home prices +8.1% a year (Brown, IL) over three years.

2,321 housing units in Brown County, IL; 533 Brown, IL renter households; 31% of Brown, IL renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 4% (Brown, IL) half or more.

Brown County, IL ranks #1,723 nationally on the opportunity index (Brown, IL, among all ranked counties); Brown, IL scores 28.7/100 and Brown, IL sits #41 inside Illinois. Brown, IL is in the early_signal opportunity phase; Brown, IL's primary driver is construction, Brown, IL second driver vacancy; Brown, IL moved up 39 places. 1 short-sale listings across Brown, IL; 111 days on market observed in Brown, IL; 12.1% vacancy over 5 Brown, IL ZIPs.

No CFPB county sample covers Brown County, IL. The non-metro area reading for Brown, IL: 1.4% ninety-plus days late; Brown, IL's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 2.8% (Brown, IL, December 2025 data); Illinois overall 1.1%.

Brown County, IL has 4 watched banks; 4 Brown, IL banks sit in an elevated band. Brown, IL footprints: Farmers State Bank&Trust Co (2 branches, stress 68) in Brown, IL; Beardstown Savings S B (1 branch, stress 79) in Brown, IL; United Community Bank (1 branch, stress 63) in Brown, IL.

HUD lists 4 assisted multifamily properties in Brown County, IL with 64 units; 64 Brown, IL units are assisted, 1 Brown, IL properties under project-based Section 8.

280 of the 2,321 housing units in Brown, IL sit vacant. Brown County, IL permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Brown, IL's one-to-four unit structures added 4 units in Brown County, IL.