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

DLRadar tracks property distress across Bureau County, Illinois using verifiable public-record signals alone. There are 31 scored ZIPs in the county (mean composite 15/100). The county's lending-headwind score sits at 55/100 (moderate). ZIP-level distress ranges from 21/100 at the top down to 10/100.

The expansion-phase county posted home values that rose 5.7% over twelve months, a 33/100-confidence read. Through the growth, specific ZIPs still slip where the composite stays elevated.

At +5.7% YoY (33/100 confidence), distress still hides in specific ZIPs so buy those and momentum helps on exit. A moderate 55/100 lender headwind implies a blend the ZIP scores sort out.

The most-distressed ZIP codes in Bureau County are 61443 (21/100), 61283 (17/100), 61330 (16/100), 61342 (16/100), 61344 (16/100), 61349 (16/100), each with its own full DLRadar report. Further scored ZIPs: 61354, 61361, 61376, 61312, 61314, 61315, 61317, 61320, 61322, 61323.

Underneath the scores, Bureau County's tracked footprint report median home values around $117,713 (below the national figure), a 11.6% vacancy rate, poverty running near 12.1%, residents with a median age around 46.5, 80% owner-occupancy, household income averaging about $63,762, below the national median. Income, equity and tenure like these shape the kind of distress to expect and the buyer pool on exit.

With a low 15/100 reading over 31 ZIPs, the opportunity hides below the average and not a county-wide play. A DLRadar subscription opens every Bureau County parcel: owner, mailing address, APN, a distress reading, the lender on title and exit timing.

Whether Bureau 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 Bureau County can be compared directly against any county in the country.

Treat Bureau County, Illinois as a ranked list, not a single market: the spread between its strongest and weakest ZIPs is where the acquisition margin actually sits. The Bureau 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.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Bureau County are 61443 (21/100), 61283 (17/100), 61330 (16/100), 61342 (16/100), 61344 (16/100), 61349 (16/100). DLRadar also scores 61354, 61361, 61376, 61312, 61314, 61315, 61317, 61320 and more across the county. Each code carries its own composite built from that ZIP's foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien and lender signals, so two neighboring ZIPs can diverge sharply even inside one county.

The Bureau County score is not a single measure but a composite: foreclosure activity, mortgage and tax-lien stress, and local lender headwind each feed it, which is why understanding the components matters as much as the headline number.