ZIP 60409 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP code 60409 in Cook County, Illinois carries a composite property-distress score of 35/100 — a moderate reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (100/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (82/100)). Latent structural risk is 79/100 while live distress already moving reads 6/100. Its heaviest discrete signals: construction/permit lag (88/100), structural risk (79/100), institutional ownership (46/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (20/100) register low.

Prices here sit in a expansion phase: values rose 5.7% over the trailing year, and 18% higher over three years (phase confidence 33/100). Even climbing markets leave specific parcels in distress; the scoring isolates them.

Home values center near $145,200, an affordability ratio of 2.5× — accessible. There are about 16,556 housing units across 60409. Rent burden reaches 51% of tenant households. About 21% have a four-year degree. Households earn a median $53,991 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Owners hold 56% of homes, renters 44%. 23.3% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. 35,253 residents call 60409 home, typically aged 38. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 34/100. The vacancy rate is 13.0% — elevated.

Taken together, 60409 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. 60409 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

Big metro or rural, 60409 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 35/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Cook County, Illinois and the nation. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 60409 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

The 35/100 for 60409 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. For an operator, 60409 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.