ZIP 60069 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Lake County, Illinois's ZIP 60069 registers 26/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (59/100), construction/permit lag (53/100), institutional ownership (20/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (20/100) and mortgage stress (8/100) register low. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (97/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (87/100). On the structural side it scores 59/100, with 2/100 of stress already active.

The market reads expansion — home values rose 6.4% year on year, and 25% higher over three years (phase confidence 36/100). Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

Households earn a median $157,366 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. On demographic stress specifically, 60069 scores 26/100. Roughly 4.6% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas. A median home runs $611,900 here, or 3.6 times local income. Around 56% of renters are cost-burdened. The tenure split is 82% owner-occupied to 18% rented. About 8,728 people live here, median age 52. The vacancy rate is 7.7%. About 72% have a four-year degree. The ZIP holds roughly 3,680 housing units.

Net-net, 60069 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.