ZIP 60026 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Composite property distress in 60026 (Cook County, Illinois) lands at 35/100 — moderate on DLRadar's distress scoring. The split runs 77/100 structural to 6/100 active on the ground. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (77/100), construction/permit lag (73/100), institutional ownership (51/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (20/100). Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (100/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (82/100), FEMA disaster exposure (62/100).

Prices here sit in a expansion phase: values rose 5.7% over the trailing year, and 20% higher over three years (phase confidence 33/100). Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

Population is roughly 14,499 with a median age of 46. Home values center near $694,200, an affordability ratio of 4.2×. Rent burden reaches 61% of tenant households. The vacancy rate is 7.0%. Educational attainment sits at 68% bachelor's-or-above. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 31/100. 70% of housing is owner-occupied. There are about 5,715 housing units across 60026. The poverty rate is 5.7% — low. Households earn a median $157,712 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure.

Overall, 60026 shows a mixed profile — neither uniformly stressed nor insulated — so opportunity is property-specific. 60026 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 60026's 35/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Cook County, Illinois or any ZIP coast to coast. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 60026, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

The 35/100 figure for 60026 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. For an operator, 60026 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.