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

For Hamilton County, Illinois, DLRadar turns county and parcel public records into a single distress score per ZIP. On bank and credit headwind, Hamilton County scores 65/100, a stressed reading. The county spans 13 scored ZIP codes, averaging 14/100 composite distress. The county's ZIP scores run from 6 up to 21/100.

The expansion-phase county posted home values that rose 5.3% over twelve months (phase confidence 34/100). Under a rising market, specific ZIPs still slip and the breakdown below pinpoints them.

At +5.3% YoY (34/100 confidence), stressed pockets remain which speeds resale of distressed buys. An elevated 65/100 reading is a buyer tailwind: expect more lender-driven inventory soon.

Top distress by ZIP runs 62810 (21/100), 62935 (18/100), 62895 (17/100), 62828 (16/100), 62890 (16/100), 62860 (15/100), listed with every scored ZIP below. The breakdown continues through 62869, 62930, 62835, 62859, 62887, 62817, 62829 and more.

Underneath the scores, Hamilton County's tracked footprint run incomes around $55,686, a 13.2% vacancy rate, 15.6% of households below the poverty line, residents with a median age around 43, typical home values near $134,133, 81% owner-occupancy. These fundamentals set up the supply of motivated sellers and the speed of resale.

With a minimal 14/100 reading over 13 ZIPs, the opportunity hides below the average and not a county-wide play. A DLRadar subscription opens every Hamilton County parcel: owner, APN and address, per-parcel scoring with lender exposure and resale velocity.

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

Used properly, Hamilton County, Illinois's scores are a triage layer: they rank where motivated sellers cluster so acquisition spend goes to the ZIPs that convert rather than across Hamilton County as a whole. Every Hamilton County signal ties to a named public source, and where the record is sparse DLRadar shows nothing instead of guessing.

Drilling in, Hamilton County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 62810 (21/100), 62935 (18/100), 62895 (17/100), 62828 (16/100), 62890 (16/100), 62860 (15/100). DLRadar also scores 62869, 62930, 62835, 62859, 62887, 62817, 62829 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 Hamilton 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.