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

Carroll County, Illinois sits inside DLRadar's nationwide distress index, built entirely from public records. The county's ZIP scores run from 13 up to 25/100. The county spans 11 scored ZIP codes, averaging 16/100 composite distress. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 81/100 (elevated).

Currently expansion, Carroll County saw prices rise 5.3% year over year, at 34/100 phase confidence. While the county appreciates, a subset takes on water where the composite stays elevated.

At +5.3% YoY (34/100 confidence), well-bought parcels resell faster so buy those and momentum helps on exit. Bank stress at 81/100 favors patient capital: short sales and foreclosures accelerate.

Distress concentrates in ZIP 61064 (25/100), ZIP 61062 (20/100), ZIP 61270 (19/100), ZIP 61028 (17/100), ZIP 61078 (17/100), ZIP 61014 (14/100) — drill into any for the parcel-level read. Also scored across the county: 61051, 61046, 61053, 61074, 61285.

By the numbers, the Carroll County ZIPs on file report a 11.3% poverty rate, residents with a median age around 43.9, a 14.6% vacancy rate, home values averaging roughly $143,645, below the US, incomes around $72,311, 81% owner-occupancy. Numbers like these signal the kind of distress to expect and the buyer pool on exit.

All in at 16/100 over 11 ZIPs, distress here is parcel-specific where the ZIP scores point. A DLRadar subscription opens every Carroll County parcel: owner, address and APN, a per-parcel score, lender exposure and exit read.

No county is too small to score: Carroll County, Illinois runs through the same foreclosure, tax, lien and bank-stress model as every major metro, so Carroll County's numbers mean exactly what they mean anywhere else in Illinois.

The practical read on Carroll County, Illinois is a targeting one — find the ZIPs holding real financial pressure, then work the parcels underneath them. The Carroll 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 Carroll County are 61064 (25/100), 61062 (20/100), 61270 (19/100), 61028 (17/100), 61078 (17/100), 61014 (14/100). DLRadar also scores 61051, 61046, 61053, 61074, 61285 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.

DLRadar's composite for Carroll 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.