ZIP 60020 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Lake County, Illinois's ZIP 60020 registers 27/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (97/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (83/100)). The sharpest non-environmental signals are construction/permit lag (65/100), structural risk (61/100), institutional ownership (19/100). institutional ownership (19/100) and mortgage stress (8/100) stay muted. The split runs 61/100 structural to 2/100 active on the ground.

The market reads expansion — home values rose 5.7% year on year, and 24% higher over three years (phase confidence 33/100). Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.

Home values center near $226,200, an affordability ratio of 3.0× — accessible. 72% of housing is owner-occupied. Population is roughly 10,846 with a median age of 45. Educational attainment sits at 27% bachelor's-or-above. Vacancy runs 9.0%. There are about 5,773 housing units across 60020. On demographic stress specifically, 60020 scores 29/100. Around 42% of renters are cost-burdened. At $71,028, median income runs near typical U.S. levels. Roughly 10.1% live below the poverty line.

Net-net, 60020 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. There is no property file for 60020 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable public records.

Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 60020's 27/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Lake County, Illinois or any ZIP coast to coast. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 60020 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

60020's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. In workflow terms, 60020 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.