ZIP 60620 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP 60620's composite property-distress score is 35/100 - DLRadar classes that as moderate for Cook County, Illinois. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (100/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (82/100). Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (88/100), structural risk (79/100), institutional ownership (46/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (20/100) register low. The split runs 79/100 structural to 6/100 active on the ground.

The market reads expansion — home values rose 5.7% year on year, and 19% higher over three years (phase confidence 33/100). Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.

The vacancy rate is 13.7% — elevated. The ZIP holds roughly 29,492 housing units. About 66,511 people live here, median age 39. About 21% have a four-year degree. Owners hold 50% of homes, renters 50%. Median household income is $48,805, below the U.S. median near $78,000. A median home runs $197,700 here, or 3.9 times local income. Roughly 21.8% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 38/100. Around 48% of renters are cost-burdened.

Net-net, 60620 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. While 60620 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.

Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 60620's 35/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Cook County, Illinois or any ZIP coast to coast. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 60620, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

60620's score blends several independent layers — foreclosure and mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, bank headwind and structural exposure — into one 0–100 number, so understanding the components matters as much as the headline for anyone screening the ZIP. For an operator, 60620 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.