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

Every ZIP in Franklin County, Illinois carries a DLRadar distress score assembled from foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender records. Bank/credit headwind for the county is 52 on a 0–100 scale, a moderate reading. The county's ZIP scores run from 11 up to 28/100. DLRadar scores 19 ZIPs here, with a mean composite of 17/100.

In its expansion phase, Franklin County home prices rose 5.3% across the last year, at 34/100 phase confidence. While the county appreciates, a subset takes on water and the breakdown below pinpoints them.

Through Franklin County's +5.3% YoY climb (34/100 confidence), stressed pockets remain where the scoring still flags pressure. A mid-cycle 52/100 lender reading points to mixed owner- and bank-driven distress.

The sharpest Franklin County readings come from 62932 (28/100), 62812 (17/100), 62819 (17/100), 62822 (17/100), 62825 (17/100), 62836 (17/100) — open any for the parcel detail. Also scored across the county: 62856, 62865, 62874, 62884, 62891, 62896, 62897, 62983, 62999, 62890.

By the numbers, Franklin County's scored ZIPs report vacancy near 11.7%, poverty running near 17.2%, residents with a median age around 43.6, home values averaging roughly $91,768, below the US, a median household income near $54,533 (below the US norm), an owner-occupied share of 80%. Income, equity and tenure like these shape the supply of motivated sellers and the speed of resale.

Net of it all, 17/100 over 19 ZIPs means the edge is selective acquisition — work it parcel by parcel. Unlock Franklin County to see every parcel's owner, APN and address, a score, the bank behind the note and how fast it should sell.

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

Approach Franklin County by rank rather than by average — the 17/100 county figure conceals the spread, since the returns live in the top-scoring ZIPs. Provenance for Franklin County is explicit: recorders and courts for filings, FHFA for prices, FDIC for lenders. No interpolation, no synthetic values.

Drilling in, Franklin County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 62932 (28/100), 62812 (17/100), 62819 (17/100), 62822 (17/100), 62825 (17/100), 62836 (17/100). DLRadar also scores 62856, 62865, 62874, 62884, 62891, 62896, 62897, 62983 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.

The Franklin 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.