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

Every ZIP in Knox County, Illinois carries a DLRadar distress score assembled from foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender records. The county spans 23 scored ZIP codes, averaging 12/100 composite distress. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 59/100 (moderate). Individual Knox County ZIPs score between 7 and 20 on the 0–100 composite.

The expansion-phase county posted home values that rose 5.7% over twelve months (phase confidence 33/100). Through the growth, the laggards keep building where the composite stays elevated.

With growth of +5.7% YoY (33/100 confidence), stressed pockets remain which speeds resale of distressed buys. A mid-cycle 59/100 lender reading implies a blend the ZIP scores sort out.

Highest scores land in 61490 (20/100), 61434 (19/100), 61529 (19/100), 61401 (18/100), 61474 (18/100), 61410 (17/100); each opens to a full parcel breakdown. Coverage extends to 61531, 61544, 61414, 61489, 61402, 61428, 61430, 61436, 61439, 61448 among others.

On the housing-and-income side, the Knox County ZIPs on file run 83% of homes owner-occupied, residents with a median age around 45.1, 13.6% of units sitting vacant, poverty running near 10.6%, home values averaging roughly $129,655, below the US, incomes around $58,612. Taken together, they set up both the distress on offer and the exit velocity.

Net of it all, 12/100 over 23 ZIPs means distress here is parcel-specific rather than a blanket buy. A DLRadar subscription opens every Knox County parcel: owner and contact detail, APN, per-parcel scoring with lender exposure and resale velocity.

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

For an acquisition buyer, the practical use of Knox County, Illinois's scores is triage: the ZIPs and parcels carrying the highest composite are where motivated sellers and below-market exits concentrate, while lower-scored areas rarely justify the marketing spend. The Knox County scoring is reproducible from public sources alone, and DLRadar declines to estimate where the underlying record is incomplete.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Knox County are 61490 (20/100), 61434 (19/100), 61529 (19/100), 61401 (18/100), 61474 (18/100), 61410 (17/100). DLRadar also scores 61531, 61544, 61414, 61489, 61402, 61428, 61430, 61436 and more across the county. Each code carries its own composite built from that ZIP's foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien and lender signals, so two neighboring ZIPs can diverge sharply even inside one county.

DLRadar's composite for Knox County blends several independent signals — foreclosure and pre-foreclosure filings, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, and the bank-stress headwind of the lenders operating locally — into one 0–100 score per ZIP, so a market can rank high on one axis and low on another.