Lee County, IL: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Lee County, IL, Illinois: 24 ZIP codes scored, Lee County, IL averaging 19/100 (low, Lee, IL), from 15 to 25. Lee County, IL is in its expansion phase (Lee, IL confidence 33/100): Lee, IL home prices up 5.7% (Lee, IL) over twelve months. Lee County, IL lender headwind: 93/100.
Highest-scoring Lee County, IL ZIPs: 61064 (25/100), 61068 (24/100), 60518 (22/100), 61342 (21/100), 61006 (20/100), 61021 (19/100). Also scored in Lee County, IL: 61031, 61071, 61081, 61243, 60530, 60553, 61042, 61057, 61310, 61318.
Across Lee County, IL's scored ZIPs: median home value $155,267, household income $65,906, 9.7% vacancy, 9.5% poverty, 75% owner-occupied, median age 41.3.
Lee County, IL insurance distress 0/100 (#2,636 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Lee, IL; Lee, IL construction distress 90/100.
10 banks with 15 branches lend in Lee County, IL; Lee, IL weighted bank stress 75/100, highest 99/100 in Lee, IL.
Lee County, IL unemployment 3.7% (Lee, IL -1.9 pts, six months); 25 new housing units permitted in Lee County, IL over twelve months, Lee, IL down 43% from 44; Lee, IL home prices +9.8% a year (Lee, IL) over three years.
14,995 housing units in Lee County, IL; 3,578 Lee, IL renter households; 37% of Lee, IL renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 17% (Lee, IL) half or more.
Lee County, IL ranks #880 nationally on the opportunity index (Lee, IL, among all ranked counties); Lee, IL scores 31.7/100 and Lee, IL sits #15 inside Illinois. Lee, IL is in the watchlist opportunity phase; Lee, IL's primary driver is construction, Lee, IL second driver bank institutional; Lee, IL moved down 70 places. 13 short-sale listings across Lee, IL; 69 days on market observed in Lee, IL; 10.7% vacancy over 24 Lee, IL ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Lee County, IL. The non-metro area reading for Lee, IL: 1.4% ninety-plus days late; Lee, IL's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 2.8% (Lee, IL, December 2025 data); Illinois overall 1.1%.
Lee County, IL has 8 watched banks; 8 Lee, IL banks sit in an elevated band. Lee, IL footprints: First National Bank In Amboy (4 branches, stress 73) in Lee, IL; Sterling Federal Bank Fsb (2 branches, stress 99) in Lee, IL; Sauk Valley Bank&Trust Co (2 branches, stress 83) in Lee, IL.
HUD lists 1 assisted multifamily property in Lee County, IL with 8 units; 8 Lee, IL units are assisted.
1,658 of the 14,995 housing units in Lee, IL sit vacant. Lee County, IL permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Lee, IL's one-to-four unit structures added 25 units in Lee County, IL.