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

Jersey County, Illinois is scored end-to-end by DLRadar for property distress, drawn only from deterministic public records. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 62/100 (elevated). The county spans 11 scored ZIP codes, averaging 19/100 composite distress. Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 17 to 20 out of 100.

Currently peak, Jersey County saw prices rise 3.9% year over year (phase confidence 26/100). With values leveling off, broad sweeps stop paying so screen ZIP by ZIP.

Near the cycle top at +3.9% YoY (26/100 confidence), opportunity is parcel-specific so the headline market won't hand it over. Its 62/100 lender headwind favors patient capital: banks under pressure move REO faster.

Distress concentrates in ZIP 62022 (20/100), ZIP 62028 (20/100), ZIP 62030 (20/100), ZIP 62031 (20/100), ZIP 62037 (20/100), ZIP 62052 (19/100) — drill into any for the parcel-level read. Other tracked Jersey County ZIPs include 62063, 62079, 62012, 62035, 62054.

By the numbers, Jersey County's tracked footprint show vacancy near 28.1%, home values averaging roughly $153,318, below the US, household income averaging about $84,969, roughly at the national median, a median age of 44.8, 11% of households below the poverty line, an owner-occupied share of 80%. Read together, they signal who is forced to sell and how readily the market absorbs it.

At 19/100 composite over 11 ZIPs, Jersey County rewards parcel-by-parcel work and not a county-wide play. Unlock Jersey County to see every parcel's owner, mailing address, APN, a distress score and bank-exposure read.

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

In Jersey County, Illinois, the scores are a targeting tool first: they tell you which ZIPs hold the distress and which owners are most likely under real financial pressure, so limited acquisition effort lands where it converts. Provenance for Jersey County is explicit: recorders and courts for filings, FHFA for prices, FDIC for lenders. No interpolation, no synthetic values.

Drilling in, Jersey County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 62022 (20/100), 62028 (20/100), 62030 (20/100), 62031 (20/100), 62037 (20/100), 62052 (19/100). DLRadar also scores 62063, 62079, 62012, 62035, 62054 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 Jersey 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.