ZIP 60053 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 60053 (Cook County, Illinois) at a moderate 34/100 for overall property distress. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (100/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (82/100), FEMA disaster exposure (64/100). Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (75/100), construction/permit lag (62/100), institutional ownership (53/100). mortgage stress (20/100) stay muted. Structural exposure scores 75 and live distress 6 on the 0–100 scale.

Prices here sit in a expansion phase: values rose 6.4% over the trailing year, and 24% higher over three years, at 36/100 phase confidence. Even climbing markets leave specific parcels in distress; the scoring isolates them.

24,687 residents call 60053 home, typically aged 44. 7.7% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Home values center near $389,100, an affordability ratio of 3.5× — accessible. There are about 9,624 housing units across 60053. Owners hold 85% of homes, renters 15%. Median household income is $106,078, above the U.S. median near $78,000. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 28/100. Rent burden reaches 51% of tenant households. Vacancy runs 4.6%. Educational attainment sits at 52% bachelor's-or-above.

Overall, 60053 shows a mixed profile — neither uniformly stressed nor insulated — so opportunity is property-specific. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.