ZIP 60617 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Cook County, Illinois's ZIP 60617 registers 34/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (100/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (82/100), FEMA disaster exposure (60/100)). What sets it apart are the readings on structural risk (77/100), construction/permit lag (73/100), institutional ownership (50/100). mortgage stress (20/100) stay muted. Structural risk reads 77/100 against active distress of 6/100.

Prices here sit in a expansion phase: values rose 5.7% over the trailing year, and 13% higher over three years, at 33/100 phase confidence. Even climbing markets leave specific parcels in distress; the scoring isolates them.

The tenure split is 56% owner-occupied to 44% rented. A median home runs $180,700 here, or 3.3 times local income. At $51,237, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. Around 46% of renters are cost-burdened. 79,284 residents call 60617 home, typically aged 38. Educational attainment sits at 20% bachelor's-or-above. There are about 34,317 housing units across 60617. 23.2% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. The vacancy rate is 13.7% — elevated. On demographic stress specifically, 60617 scores 36/100.

On the whole, 60617 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. No parcel file is published for 60617 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

Big metro or rural, 60617 runs through one identical scoring model, so its 34/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Cook County, Illinois and the nation. Where the record is thin for 60617, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.

Behind 60617's composite sit distinct signals (foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender and structural), each scored on its own before rolling up, so two ZIPs with the same total can describe very different situations on the ground. For a buyer, 60617 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.