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

For Jefferson County, Illinois, DLRadar turns county and parcel public records into a single distress score per ZIP. Individual Jefferson County ZIPs score between 15 and 25 on the 0–100 composite. There are 17 scored ZIPs in the county (mean composite 21/100). On bank and credit headwind, Jefferson County scores 36/100.

In its expansion phase, Jefferson County home prices rose 5.7% across the last year (phase confidence 33/100). Despite the upswing, some owners fall behind anyway where the composite stays elevated.

Through Jefferson County's +5.7% YoY climb (33/100 confidence), well-bought parcels resell faster so buy those and momentum helps on exit. A mid-cycle 36/100 lender reading points to mixed owner- and bank-driven distress.

Top distress by ZIP runs 62877 (25/100), 62808 (24/100), 62889 (23/100), 62816 (22/100), 62830 (22/100), 62846 (22/100), listed with every scored ZIP below. Also scored across the county: 62864, 62872, 62893, 62894, 62898, 62801, 62810, 62814, 62836, 62851.

Demographically, Jefferson County's tracked footprint report a 13.4% poverty rate, a median age of 42.3, a median household income near $59,373 (below the US norm), 83% owner-occupancy, a 11.2% vacancy rate, home values averaging roughly $122,153, below the US. Read together, they set up the volume of pressured sellers and the exit liquidity behind them.

With a low 21/100 reading over 17 ZIPs, Jefferson County is a screen-by-ZIP market — work it parcel by parcel. Subscribers get each Jefferson County parcel's owner, APN and address, a per-parcel score, lender exposure and exit read.

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

The practical read on Jefferson County, Illinois is a targeting one — find the ZIPs holding real financial pressure, then work the parcels underneath them. These Jefferson County numbers come straight from public filings and refresh as new ones post; a missing source produces a blank field, never an estimate.

Drilling in, Jefferson County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 62877 (25/100), 62808 (24/100), 62889 (23/100), 62816 (22/100), 62830 (22/100), 62846 (22/100). DLRadar also scores 62864, 62872, 62893, 62894, 62898, 62801, 62810, 62814 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 Jefferson 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.