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

Fayette County, Illinois is mapped parcel-to-ZIP by DLRadar's public-record distress engine. The county spans 20 scored ZIP codes, averaging 11/100 composite distress. Bank/credit headwind for the county is 83 on a 0–100 scale, a elevated reading. ZIP-level distress ranges from 18/100 at the top down to 8/100.

Currently expansion, Fayette County saw prices rise 5.3% year over year (phase confidence 34/100). Even as prices climb, specific ZIPs still slip which the scoring still flags.

At +5.3% YoY (34/100 confidence), distress still hides in specific ZIPs where the scoring still flags pressure. An elevated 83/100 reading is a buyer tailwind: short sales and foreclosures accelerate.

Highest scores land in 62854 (18/100), 62892 (17/100), 62875 (16/100), 62253 (12/100), 62262 (12/100), 62422 (12/100); each opens to a full parcel breakdown. The breakdown continues through 62431, 62032, 62075, 62411, 62414, 62011, 62080, 62418, 62426, 62458 and more.

Underneath the scores, Fayette County's scored ZIPs run median home values around $116,905 (below the national figure), a median household income near $61,323 (below the US norm), 13.2% of units sitting vacant, residents with a median age around 43.1, an owner-occupied share of 84%, a 14.6% poverty rate. These fundamentals set up the kind of distress to expect and the buyer pool on exit.

Fayette County, Illinois's 11/100 average over 20 ZIPs says the edge is selective acquisition where the ZIP scores point. Inside DLRadar, each Fayette County property carries owner, APN and address, its own score, the lender behind it and an exit read.

The distress read for Fayette County, Illinois is refreshed as new public records post and uses the same methodology coast to coast, so Fayette County stays directly comparable to any other market you track.

Fayette County, Illinois is best worked from the top of the score down; blanket outreach across Fayette County dilutes effort that the ZIP-level numbers would have focused. The Fayette County scoring is reproducible from public sources alone, and DLRadar declines to estimate where the underlying record is incomplete.

Drilling in, Fayette County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 62854 (18/100), 62892 (17/100), 62875 (16/100), 62253 (12/100), 62262 (12/100), 62422 (12/100). DLRadar also scores 62431, 62032, 62075, 62411, 62414, 62011, 62080, 62418 and more across the county. Every one of these is scored independently — a ZIP's composite reflects its own recorded distress, which is why the county average alone hides where the real pressure sits.

Under Fayette County's headline composite sit distinct layers — recorded foreclosures, tax and lien delinquency, mortgage stress and bank headwind — each scored separately before they roll up, so the same total can describe very different markets.