ZIP 60526 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 60526 (Cook County, Illinois) at a moderate 34/100 for overall property distress. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (75/100), construction/permit lag (62/100), institutional ownership (53/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (20/100). Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (100/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (82/100), FEMA disaster exposure (64/100)). The latent-versus-live split is 75/100 structural and 6/100 already moving.

The expansion-phase market in 60526 posted values that rose 6.4% over the year, and 17% higher over three years (phase confidence 36/100). Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.

The typical home is worth about $439,800 (3.6× income, relatively affordable). The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 25/100. At $118,831, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. Around 60% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Around 37% of renters are cost-burdened. Population is roughly 13,341 with a median age of 42. The poverty rate is 4.0% — low. The ZIP holds roughly 5,641 housing units. 74% of housing is owner-occupied. The vacancy rate is 7.3%.

On balance 60526 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.