ZIP 60002 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

On DLRadar's 0-100 public-record scale, ZIP 60002 in Lake County, Illinois comes in at 27, a low composite-distress reading. The latent-versus-live split is 61/100 structural and 2/100 already moving. Leading the profile are construction/permit lag (65/100), structural risk (61/100), institutional ownership (19/100). On the quiet end sit institutional ownership (19/100) and mortgage stress (8/100). Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (97/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (83/100).

Prices here sit in a expansion phase: values rose 5.7% over the trailing year, and 27% higher over three years, at 33/100 phase confidence. Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

About 24,396 people live here, median age 41. A median home runs $301,900 here, or 2.6 times local income. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 26/100. The tenure split is 81% owner-occupied to 19% rented. Around 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The poverty rate is 7.3% — low. Vacancy runs 12.3%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. At $109,047, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. The ZIP holds roughly 10,492 housing units. Rent burden reaches 41% of tenant households.

On the whole, 60002 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. No parcel file is published for 60002 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

The number is not local guesswork: 60002's 27/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. 60002 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.

The 27/100 figure for 60002 is a composite, not one metric: it rolls up foreclosure and pre-foreclosure activity, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, local lender headwind, and structural risk into a single reading, which is why a ZIP can look calm on price yet score high on distress. In workflow terms, 60002 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.