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

For Union County, Illinois, DLRadar turns county and parcel public records into a single distress score per ZIP. Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 8 to 20 out of 100. DLRadar scores 13 ZIPs here, with a mean composite of 10/100. County-level credit and bank headwind reads 51/100.

Currently expansion, Union County saw prices rise 5.3% year over year (phase confidence 34/100). Under a rising market, specific ZIPs still slip and the breakdown below pinpoints them.

Through Union County's +5.3% YoY climb (34/100 confidence), stressed pockets remain which speeds resale of distressed buys. A moderate 51/100 lender headwind means a blend the ZIP scores sort out.

Distress concentrates in ZIP 62902 (20/100), ZIP 62958 (18/100), ZIP 62939 (11/100), ZIP 62905 (10/100), ZIP 62957 (10/100), ZIP 62920 (9/100) — drill into any for the parcel-level read. Also scored across the county: 62926, 62906, 62912, 62923, 62952, 62961, 62998.

Underneath the scores, Union County's scored ZIPs show a 15.6% poverty rate, residents with a median age around 45.3, a median household income near $60,288 (below the US norm), home values averaging roughly $130,027, below the US, 18.4% of units sitting vacant, 82% owner-occupancy. These fundamentals set up how much distress reaches the market and how fast it moves.

Net of it all, 10/100 over 13 ZIPs means distress here is parcel-specific and not a county-wide play. Inside DLRadar, each Union County property carries owner, address and APN, its own score, the lender behind it and an exit read.

The distress read for Union County, Illinois is refreshed as new public records post and uses the same methodology coast to coast, so Union County stays directly comparable to any other market you track.

Read Union County, Illinois as a heat map for effort — the county's minimal composite of 10/100 hides wide ZIP-level variation, and the return comes from chasing the hot ZIPs, not the average. The Union County scoring is reproducible from public sources alone, and DLRadar declines to estimate where the underlying record is incomplete.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Union County are 62902 (20/100), 62958 (18/100), 62939 (11/100), 62905 (10/100), 62957 (10/100), 62920 (9/100). DLRadar also scores 62926, 62906, 62912, 62923, 62952, 62961, 62998 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 Union 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.