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

For Pope County, Illinois, DLRadar turns county and parcel public records into a single distress score per ZIP. County-level credit and bank headwind reads 100/100 — elevated, a sign of lender stress locally. Coverage runs to 10 ZIPs across Pope County, a minimal 9/100 average. The county's ZIP scores run from 3 up to 15/100.

The county market is in a expansion phase: home prices rose 5.3% over the past year, at 34/100 phase confidence. Despite the upswing, pockets of distress persist even as the headline looks strong.

With growth of +5.3% YoY (34/100 confidence), well-bought parcels resell faster where the scoring still flags pressure. An elevated 100/100 reading signals what's coming: short sales and foreclosures accelerate.

Distress concentrates in ZIP 62946 (15/100), ZIP 62987 (14/100), ZIP 62960 (13/100), ZIP 62943 (11/100), ZIP 62910 (10/100), ZIP 62972 (7/100) — drill into any for the parcel-level read. The breakdown continues through 62938, 62985, 62928, 62947 and more.

By the numbers, Pope County's tracked footprint run incomes around $61,142, 85% owner-occupancy, poverty running near 11%, a 29.5% vacancy rate, a median age of 48.2, home values averaging roughly $133,211, below the US. Taken together, they signal who is forced to sell and how readily the market absorbs it.

With a minimal 9/100 reading over 10 ZIPs, distress here is parcel-specific — work it parcel by parcel. Inside DLRadar, each Pope County property carries owner, address and APN, a per-parcel score, lender exposure and exit read.

Whether Pope 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 Pope County can be compared directly against any county in the country.

The point of scoring Pope County, Illinois is to narrow it — the high-composite ZIPs carry the distress, and everything below them rarely repays the outreach cost. The Pope County read is rebuilt from public records as they post — no modeling fills the gaps — so what you see is what the documents support, refreshed on each ingest.

The ZIP breakdown for Pope County leads with 62946 (15/100), 62987 (14/100), 62960 (13/100), 62943 (11/100), 62910 (10/100), 62972 (7/100). DLRadar also scores 62938, 62985, 62928, 62947 across the county. Because each ZIP is graded on its own foreclosure, tax and lender record, the county's distress is best read code by code rather than as a single number.

Under Pope 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.