ZIP 60642 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP code 60642 in Cook County, Illinois carries a composite property-distress score of 35/100 — a moderate reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. Latent structural risk is 79/100 while live distress already moving reads 6/100. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (100/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (82/100). What sets it apart are the readings on construction/permit lag (88/100), structural risk (79/100), institutional ownership (46/100). mortgage stress (20/100) stay muted.

Prices here sit in a expansion phase: values rose 5.7% over the trailing year, at 33/100 phase confidence. Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.

21,124 residents call 60642 home, typically aged 33. The vacancy rate is 6.3%. Owners hold 33% of homes, renters 67%. Rent burden reaches 25% of tenant households. On demographic stress specifically, 60642 scores 28/100. Educational attainment sits at 78% bachelor's-or-above. Home values center near $593,600, an affordability ratio of 4.3×. 8.3% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. The ZIP holds roughly 12,535 housing units. Households earn a median $141,179 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure.

Overall, 60642 shows a mixed profile — neither uniformly stressed nor insulated — so opportunity is property-specific. While 60642 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.

The 60642 read uses the identical public-record model applied coast to coast, which means its 35/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 60642 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Cook County, Illinois. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 60642 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

60642's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. For an operator, 60642 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.