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

Pope County, IL, Illinois: 10 ZIP codes scored, Pope County, IL averaging 10/100 (minimal, Pope, IL), from 3 to 19. Pope County, IL is in its expansion phase (Pope, IL confidence 34/100): Pope, IL home prices up 5.3% (Pope, IL) over twelve months. Pope County, IL lender headwind: 100/100.

Highest-scoring Pope County, IL ZIPs: 62960 (19/100), 62910 (14/100), 62943 (14/100), 62946 (14/100), 62987 (13/100), 62938 (9/100). Also scored in Pope County, IL: 62972, 62985, 62928, 62947.

Across Pope County, IL's scored ZIPs: median home value $133,211, household income $61,142, 29.5% vacancy, 11.0% poverty, 85% owner-occupied, median age 48.2.

Pope County, IL insurance distress 0/100 (#2,652 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Pope, IL; Pope, IL construction distress 25/100.

1 bank with 1 branch lend in Pope County, IL; Pope, IL weighted bank stress 83/100.

Pope County, IL unemployment 5.3% (Pope, IL -1.4 pts, six months).

2,225 housing units in Pope County, IL; 190 Pope, IL renter households; 16% of Pope, IL renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 2% (Pope, IL) half or more.

Pope County, IL ranks #1,147 nationally on the opportunity index (Pope, IL, among all ranked counties); Pope, IL scores 30.7/100 and Pope, IL sits #21 inside Illinois. Pope, IL is in the watchlist opportunity phase; Pope, IL's primary driver is vacancy, Pope, IL second driver bank institutional; Pope, IL moved down 80 places. 2 short-sale listings across Pope, IL; 9 days on market observed in Pope, IL; 30.0% vacancy over 10 Pope, IL ZIPs.

No CFPB county sample covers Pope County, IL. The non-metro area reading for Pope, IL: 1.4% ninety-plus days late; Pope, IL's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 2.8% (Pope, IL, December 2025 data); Illinois overall 1.1%.

Pope County, IL has 1 watched bank; 1 Pope, IL bank sits in an elevated band. Pope, IL footprints: Banterra Bank (1 branch, stress 83) in Pope, IL.

840 of the 2,225 housing units in Pope, IL sit vacant.