ZIP 60178 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Scored purely from public records, 60178 (Dekalb County, Illinois) returns a low composite of 18/100. Structurally it carries 38/100, against 1/100 of stress already in motion. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (83/100)). Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (51/100), structural risk (38/100), institutional ownership (3/100). institutional ownership (3/100) and mortgage stress (2/100) stay muted.

Prices here sit in a expansion phase: values rose 5.7% over the trailing year, and 22% higher over three years, at 33/100 phase confidence. Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

There are about 9,162 housing units across 60178. The tenure split is 73% owner-occupied to 28% rented. Roughly 8.3% live below the poverty line. Around 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Home values center near $279,500, an affordability ratio of 3.0× — accessible. Rent burden reaches 26% of tenant households. About 21,709 people live here, median age 38. At $88,314, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. Vacancy runs 4.9%. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 24/100.

On balance, 60178 reads as a higher-equity, stable market where distress is selective and worth pinpointing parcel by parcel. While 60178 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.

No ZIP is too small to score: 60178 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 18/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 60178, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

60178's score blends several independent layers — foreclosure and mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, bank headwind and structural exposure — into one 0–100 number, so understanding the components matters as much as the headline for anyone screening the ZIP. The point of the 60178 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.