ZIP 60021 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 60021 (Mchenry County, Illinois) at a low 24/100 for overall property distress. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (53/100), construction/permit lag (52/100), institutional ownership (14/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (14/100) and mortgage stress (6/100) register low. On the structural side it scores 53/100, with 2/100 of stress already active. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (93/100).

The market reads expansion — home values rose 6.4% year on year, and 19% higher over three years (phase confidence 36/100). Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

Roughly 2.5% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas. About 5,108 people live here, median age 41. Around 32% of renters are cost-burdened. About 42% have a four-year degree. Households earn a median $122,005 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. The vacancy rate is 8.5%. The tenure split is 87% owner-occupied to 13% rented. On demographic stress specifically, 60021 scores 21/100. The ZIP holds roughly 2,015 housing units. A median home runs $292,800 here, or 2.4 times local income.

Overall 60021 looks resilient on the surface, so the edge is isolating individual stressed parcels. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.