ZIP 60048 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Composite property distress in 60048 (Lake County, Illinois) lands at 27/100 — low on DLRadar's public-record scoring. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (97/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (83/100). Its standout 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. Structurally it carries 61/100, against 2/100 of stress already in motion.

Prices here sit in a expansion phase: values rose 5.7% over the trailing year, and 23% higher over three years, at 33/100 phase confidence. Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

There are about 10,926 housing units across 60048. Around 37% of renters are cost-burdened. Home values center near $551,200, an affordability ratio of 3.2× — accessible. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 22/100. Population is roughly 28,945 with a median age of 43. At $169,283, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. 84% of housing is owner-occupied. 4.3% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. The vacancy rate is 3.5%. About 71% have a four-year degree.

Net-net, 60048 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. No parcel file is published for 60048 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

No ZIP is too small to score: 60048 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 27/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 60048 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

Behind 60048's composite sit distinct signals (foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender and structural), each scored on its own before rolling up, so two ZIPs with the same total can describe very different situations on the ground. For a buyer, 60048 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.