Jackson County, IL: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Jackson County, IL, Illinois: 22 ZIP codes scored, Jackson County, IL averaging 22/100 (low, Jackson, IL), from 9 to 28. Jackson County, IL is in its expansion phase (Jackson, IL confidence 33/100): Jackson, IL home prices up 5.7% (Jackson, IL) over twelve months. Jackson County, IL lender headwind: 56/100.
Highest-scoring Jackson County, IL ZIPs: 62903 (28/100), 62907 (28/100), 62927 (28/100), 62932 (28/100), 62940 (28/100), 62942 (28/100). Also scored in Jackson County, IL: 62950, 62966, 62975, 62994, 62280, 62901, 62924, 62902, 62918, 62958.
Across Jackson County, IL's scored ZIPs: median home value $123,152, household income $53,806, 15.2% vacancy, 14.7% poverty, 72% owner-occupied, median age 40.7.
Jackson County, IL insurance distress 26/100 (#1,848 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Jackson, IL; 2 Jackson, IL NFIP flood claims, $156K paid; Jackson, IL construction distress 85/100.
11 banks with 20 branches lend in Jackson County, IL; Jackson, IL weighted bank stress 64/100, highest 92/100 in Jackson, IL.
Jackson County, IL unemployment 4.3% (Jackson, IL -1.3 pts, six months); 2 new housing units permitted in Jackson County, IL over twelve months, Jackson, IL down 71% from 7; Jackson, IL home prices +6.3% a year (Jackson, IL) over three years.
27,727 housing units in Jackson County, IL; 11,700 Jackson, IL renter households; 48% of Jackson, IL renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 27% (Jackson, IL) half or more.
Jackson County, IL ranks #907 nationally on the opportunity index (Jackson, IL, among all ranked counties); Jackson, IL scores 31.6/100 and Jackson, IL sits #16 inside Illinois. Jackson, IL is in the watchlist opportunity phase; Jackson, IL's primary driver is vacancy, Jackson, IL second driver construction; Jackson, IL moved down 134 places. 8 short-sale listings across Jackson, IL; 102 days on market observed in Jackson, IL; 16.3% vacancy over 22 Jackson, IL ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Jackson County, IL. The non-metro area reading for Jackson, IL: 1.4% ninety-plus days late; Jackson, IL's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 2.8% (Jackson, IL, December 2025 data); Illinois overall 1.1%.
Jackson County, IL has 9 watched banks; 9 Jackson, IL banks sit in an elevated band. Jackson, IL footprints: First Southern Bank (7 branches, stress 60) in Jackson, IL; Murphy-Wall State B&T Co (2 branches, stress 69) in Jackson, IL; First Mid B&T Na (2 branches, stress 62) in Jackson, IL.
HUD lists 3 assisted multifamily properties in Jackson County, IL with 249 units; 174 Jackson, IL units are assisted, 1 Jackson, IL properties under project-based Section 8.
4,772 of the 27,727 housing units in Jackson, IL sit vacant. Jackson County, IL permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Jackson, IL's one-to-four unit structures added 2 units in Jackson County, IL.