ZIP 60609 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Cook County, Illinois's ZIP 60609 registers 34/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (75/100), construction/permit lag (62/100), institutional ownership (53/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (20/100) register low. On the structural side it scores 75/100, with 6/100 of stress already active. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (100/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (82/100), FEMA disaster exposure (64/100).

The market reads expansion — home values rose 6.4% year on year, and 16% higher over three years (phase confidence 36/100). Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

Households earn a median $54,142 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. The ZIP holds roughly 25,849 housing units. On demographic stress specifically, 60609 scores 41/100. Around 43% of renters are cost-burdened. The tenure split is 42% owner-occupied to 58% rented. About 20% have a four-year degree. The vacancy rate is 11.3% — elevated. A median home runs $268,300 here, or 4.7 times local income. Roughly 25.3% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. About 64,268 people live here, median age 35.

Net-net, 60609 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.