Knox County, IL: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Knox County, IL, Illinois: 23 ZIP codes scored, Knox County, IL averaging 18/100 (low, Knox, IL), from 10 to 22. Knox County, IL is in its expansion phase (Knox, IL confidence 33/100): Knox, IL home prices up 5.7% (Knox, IL) over twelve months. Knox County, IL lender headwind: 59/100.
Highest-scoring Knox County, IL ZIPs: 61490 (22/100), 61529 (22/100), 61434 (21/100), 61402 (19/100), 61428 (19/100), 61430 (19/100). Also scored in Knox County, IL: 61436, 61439, 61448, 61458, 61467, 61485, 61488, 61572, 61401, 61472.
Across Knox County, IL's scored ZIPs: median home value $129,655, household income $58,612, 13.6% vacancy, 10.6% poverty, 83% owner-occupied, median age 45.1.
Knox County, IL insurance distress 0/100 (#2,634 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Knox, IL; Knox, IL construction distress 92/100.
12 banks with 18 branches lend in Knox County, IL; Knox, IL weighted bank stress 66/100, highest 83/100 in Knox, IL.
Knox County, IL unemployment 4.4% (Knox, IL -2.0 pts, six months); 1 new housing units permitted in Knox County, IL over twelve months, Knox, IL down 50% from 2; Knox, IL home prices +7.2% a year (Knox, IL) over three years.
23,758 housing units in Knox County, IL; 6,275 Knox, IL renter households; 51% of Knox, IL renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 29% (Knox, IL) half or more.
Knox County, IL ranks #1,405 nationally on the opportunity index (Knox, IL, among all ranked counties); Knox, IL scores 29.7/100 and Knox, IL sits #24 inside Illinois. Knox, IL is in the early_signal opportunity phase; Knox, IL's primary driver is construction, Knox, IL second driver vacancy; Knox, IL moved down 265 places. 1 short-sale listings across Knox, IL; 68 days on market observed in Knox, IL; 11.6% vacancy over 23 Knox, IL ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Knox County, IL. The non-metro area reading for Knox, IL: 1.4% ninety-plus days late; Knox, IL's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 2.8% (Knox, IL, December 2025 data); Illinois overall 1.1%.
Knox County, IL has 8 watched banks; 8 Knox, IL banks sit in an elevated band. Knox, IL footprints: Tompkins State Bank (3 branches, stress 73) in Knox, IL; Midwest Bank (2 branches, stress 76) in Knox, IL; Community State Bank (2 branches, stress 67) in Knox, IL.
HUD lists 5 assisted multifamily properties in Knox County, IL with 214 units; 214 Knox, IL units are assisted, 1 Knox, IL properties under project-based Section 8.
2,786 of the 23,758 housing units in Knox, IL sit vacant. Knox County, IL permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Knox, IL's one-to-four unit structures added 1 units in Knox County, IL.