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

Lee County, Illinois is scored end-to-end by DLRadar for property distress, drawn only from deterministic public records. 24 ZIP codes are tracked county-wide, averaging 18/100 distress. ZIP-level distress ranges from 25/100 at the top down to 16/100. On bank and credit headwind, Lee County scores 93/100, a stressed reading.

In its expansion phase, Lee County home prices rose 5.7% across the last year (phase confidence 33/100). Despite the upswing, the laggards keep building and the breakdown below pinpoints them.

Through Lee County's +5.7% YoY climb (33/100 confidence), distress still hides in specific ZIPs — and a rising tide cleans up those exits. An elevated 93/100 reading signals what's coming: short sales and foreclosures accelerate.

The sharpest Lee County readings come from 61064 (25/100), 61068 (25/100), 61006 (20/100), 61071 (19/100), 61081 (19/100), 61243 (19/100) — open any for the parcel detail. Coverage extends to 61021, 61031, 60518, 60553, 61042, 61057, 61310, 61318, 61324, 61331 among others.

Profile-wise, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Lee County come in at a median age of 41.3, 9.7% of units sitting vacant, typical home values near $155,267, a median household income near $65,906 (below the US norm), 75% of homes owner-occupied, poverty running near 9.5%. Taken together, they signal which owners come under strain and how quickly stock clears.

With a low 18/100 reading over 24 ZIPs, the edge is selective acquisition rather than a blanket buy. A DLRadar subscription opens every Lee County parcel: owner and contact detail, APN, per-parcel scoring with lender exposure and resale velocity.

Whether Lee County, Illinois carries heavy distress or only a handful of flagged parcels, every score here is built the same deterministic way — from recorded foreclosures, tax delinquency, liens and lender stress — so Lee County can be compared directly against any county in the country.

The way to work Lee County, Illinois is top-down — start with the highest-scoring ZIPs (up to 25/100 here), then drill to the parcels driving those numbers, rather than blanketing Lee County with undifferentiated outreach. What supports the Lee County read is documentary: filings from the recorder and courts, federal price and bank data, and blanks wherever coverage is thin.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Lee County are 61064 (25/100), 61068 (25/100), 61006 (20/100), 61071 (19/100), 61081 (19/100), 61243 (19/100). DLRadar also scores 61021, 61031, 60518, 60553, 61042, 61057, 61310, 61318 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.

Under Lee 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.