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

For Peoria County, Illinois, DLRadar turns county and parcel public records into a single distress score per ZIP. The county spans 28 scored ZIP codes, averaging 18/100 composite distress. Lender pressure in Peoria County registers 52/100 — a moderate bank-stress headwind. ZIP-level distress ranges from 20/100 at the top down to 11/100.

The county market is in a peak phase: home prices rose 2.6% over the past year, a 49/100-confidence read. At this stage of the cycle, the opportunity narrows leaving the wins in individual deals.

Near the cycle top at +2.6% YoY (49/100 confidence), the wins are surgical and a county-wide sweep stays on the shelf. A moderate 52/100 lender headwind points to both signal sets in play here.

Highest scores land in 61569 (20/100), 61451 (19/100), 61517 (19/100), 61523 (19/100), 61525 (19/100), 61526 (19/100); each opens to a full parcel breakdown. Coverage extends to 61528, 61529, 61533, 61536, 61539, 61547, 61552, 61562, 61602, 61603 among others.

By the numbers, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Peoria County report a 13.9% vacancy rate, residents with a median age around 40.9, an owner-occupied share of 74%, a 15.2% poverty rate, typical home values near $169,585, a median household income near $71,152 (near the US norm). Numbers like these drive the volume of pressured sellers and the exit liquidity behind them.

Peoria County, Illinois's 18/100 average over 28 ZIPs says the opportunity hides below the average for a disciplined buyer. Subscribers get each Peoria County parcel's owner and contact detail, APN, its own score, the lender behind it and an exit read.

No county is too small to score: Peoria County, Illinois runs through the same foreclosure, tax, lien and bank-stress model as every major metro, so Peoria County's numbers mean exactly what they mean anywhere else in Illinois.

Peoria County, Illinois is best worked from the top of the score down; blanket outreach across Peoria County dilutes effort that the ZIP-level numbers would have focused. Nothing in the Peoria County read is modelled: recorder and court filings drive foreclosure and lien signals, FHFA sets the price cycle, FDIC the lender stress, and a thin source stays blank.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Peoria County are 61569 (20/100), 61451 (19/100), 61517 (19/100), 61523 (19/100), 61525 (19/100), 61526 (19/100). DLRadar also scores 61528, 61529, 61533, 61536, 61539, 61547, 61552, 61562 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 Peoria 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.