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

For Lake County, Illinois, DLRadar turns county and parcel public records into a single distress score per ZIP. Individual Lake County ZIPs score between 25 and 35 on the 0–100 composite. 36 ZIP codes are tracked county-wide, averaging 27/100 distress. Bank/credit headwind for the county is 44 on a 0–100 scale, a moderate reading.

Currently expansion, Lake County saw prices rise 5.7% year over year, a 33/100-confidence read. While the county appreciates, a subset takes on water so the laggard ZIPs are the opening.

At +5.7% YoY (33/100 confidence), stressed pockets remain so buy those and momentum helps on exit. Mid-range bank stress at 44/100 implies a blend the ZIP scores sort out.

Highest scores land in 60074 (35/100), 60090 (35/100), 60010 (33/100), 60089 (30/100), 60015 (28/100), 60002 (27/100); each opens to a full parcel breakdown. Coverage extends to 60020, 60030, 60031, 60035, 60040, 60041, 60044, 60045, 60046, 60047 among others.

Demographically, Lake County's tracked footprint show household income averaging about $114,533, above the national median, home values averaging roughly $368,612, in line with the US, 4.9% of units sitting vacant, a median age of 40.6, poverty running near 10.4%, 75% of homes owner-occupied. Numbers like these frame the supply of motivated sellers and the speed of resale.

Net of it all, 27/100 over 36 ZIPs means the opportunity hides below the average for a disciplined buyer. A DLRadar subscription opens every Lake County parcel: owner, mailing address, APN, a parcel-level score plus bank exposure and liquidity read.

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

Read Lake County, Illinois as a heat map for effort — the county's low composite of 27/100 hides wide ZIP-level variation, and the return comes from chasing the hot ZIPs, not the average. The Lake County figures are auditable line by line — county recorders and courts, FHFA price data, FDIC bank filings — with gaps left visible rather than filled by estimate.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Lake County are 60074 (35/100), 60090 (35/100), 60010 (33/100), 60089 (30/100), 60015 (28/100), 60002 (27/100). DLRadar also scores 60020, 60030, 60031, 60035, 60040, 60041, 60044, 60045 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.

The Lake County score is not a single measure but a composite: foreclosure activity, mortgage and tax-lien stress, and local lender headwind each feed it, which is why understanding the components matters as much as the headline number.