ZIP 60042 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Lake County, Illinois · Distress market
Composite property distress in 60042 (Lake County, Illinois) lands at 27/100 — low on DLRadar's distress scoring. The latent-versus-live split is 62/100 structural and 2/100 already moving. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (95/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (87/100). What sets it apart are the readings on construction/permit lag (65/100), structural risk (62/100), institutional ownership (20/100). institutional ownership (20/100) and mortgage stress (7/100) stay muted.
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.
There are about 3,270 housing units across 60042. Home values center near $259,100, an affordability ratio of 2.6× — accessible. The poverty rate is 7.5%. Educational attainment sits at 27% bachelor's-or-above. The vacancy rate is 4.8%. Households earn a median $94,613 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. About 8,630 people live here, median age 40. Rent burden reaches 43% of tenant households. Owners hold 82% of homes, renters 18%. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 26/100.
Net-net, 60042 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. Parcel-level detail for 60042 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced.
The number is not local guesswork: 60042's 27/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed as records update; 60042 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.
Each component behind 60042 - foreclosure, mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, lender pullback, structural exposure - is graded on its own before the 27/100 roll-up. Treat 60042 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.
ZIP 60042 distress signals, scored
Unpaid tax, corporate ownership share, insurance cost pressure, NFIP flood risk, construction slowdown, price gaps and auction turnover — plus the 0 individual distressed properties are broken out by owner, address, APN, per-property score and exit read inside DLRadar.
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