Dekalb County, IL: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Dekalb County, IL, Illinois: 22 ZIP codes scored, Dekalb County, IL averaging 22/100 (low, Dekalb, IL), from 18 to 26. Dekalb County, IL is in its expansion phase (Dekalb, IL confidence 33/100): Dekalb, IL home prices up 5.7% (Dekalb, IL) over twelve months. Dekalb County, IL lender headwind: 49/100.
Highest-scoring Dekalb County, IL ZIPs: 60152 (26/100), 60129 (24/100), 60140 (24/100), 60511 (24/100), 61068 (24/100), 60151 (23/100). Also scored in Dekalb County, IL: 60531, 60111, 60112, 60115, 60135, 60145, 60150, 60178, 60518, 60520.
Across Dekalb County, IL's scored ZIPs: median home value $257,545, household income $81,003, 4.3% vacancy, 9.4% poverty, 76% owner-occupied, median age 39.1.
Dekalb County, IL insurance distress 18/100 (#2,375 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Dekalb, IL; 1 Dekalb, IL NFIP flood claims, $7K paid; Dekalb, IL construction distress 56/100.
9 banks with 37 branches lend in Dekalb County, IL; Dekalb, IL weighted bank stress 59/100, highest 71/100 in Dekalb, IL.
Dekalb County, IL unemployment 3.7% (Dekalb, IL -1.7 pts, six months); 295 new housing units permitted in Dekalb County, IL over twelve months, Dekalb, IL down 7% from 316; Dekalb, IL home prices +9.7% a year (Dekalb, IL) over three years.
41,678 housing units in Dekalb County, IL; 15,387 Dekalb, IL renter households; 53% of Dekalb, IL renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 29% (Dekalb, IL) half or more.
Dekalb County, IL ranks #3,087 nationally on the opportunity index (Dekalb, IL, among all ranked counties); Dekalb, IL scores 22.2/100 and Dekalb, IL sits #98 inside Illinois. Dekalb, IL is in the weak opportunity phase; Dekalb, IL's primary driver is bank institutional, Dekalb, IL second driver construction; Dekalb, IL moved down 63 places. 5 short-sale listings across Dekalb, IL; 107 days on market observed in Dekalb, IL; 5.5% vacancy over 22 Dekalb, IL ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Dekalb County, IL. The metro area reading for Dekalb, IL (Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN): 1.1% ninety-plus days late; Dekalb, IL's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 2.1% (Dekalb, IL, December 2025 data); Illinois overall 1.1%.
Dekalb County, IL has 5 watched banks; 5 Dekalb, IL banks sit in an elevated band. Dekalb, IL footprints: Resource Bank National Assn (10 branches, stress 71) in Dekalb, IL; Heartland Bank&Trust Co (6 branches, stress 51) in Dekalb, IL; First State Bank (3 branches, stress 64) in Dekalb, IL.
HUD lists 3 assisted multifamily properties in Dekalb County, IL with 343 units.
2,128 of the 41,678 housing units in Dekalb, IL sit vacant. Dekalb County, IL permitted 77 multifamily units in twelve months; Dekalb, IL's one-to-four unit structures added 218 units in Dekalb County, IL.