ZIP 60201 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 60201 (Cook County, Illinois) at a moderate 34/100 for overall property distress. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (100/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (82/100), FEMA disaster exposure (64/100). On the structural side it scores 75/100, with 6/100 of stress already active. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (75/100), construction/permit lag (62/100), institutional ownership (53/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (20/100) register low.

The market reads expansion — home values rose 6.4% year on year, and 19% higher over three years (phase confidence 36/100). Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

About 74% have a four-year degree. Around 53% of renters are cost-burdened. On demographic stress specifically, 60201 scores 38/100. The ZIP holds roughly 19,147 housing units. Roughly 14.2% live below the poverty line. The tenure split is 55% owner-occupied to 45% rented. Households earn a median $92,101 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. The vacancy rate is 8.1%. A median home runs $590,700 here, or 6.3 times local income. About 43,555 people live here, median age 34.

Net-net, 60201 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.