ZIP 60938 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Iroquois County, Illinois's ZIP 60938 registers 16/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. Structural risk reads 33/100 against active distress of 1/100. Its standout signals are construction/permit lag (41/100), structural risk (33/100), mortgage stress (3/100). mortgage stress (3/100) and institutional ownership (3/100) stay muted. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (75/100)).

The market reads expansion — home values rose 5.3% year on year, and 30% higher over three years (phase confidence 34/100). Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

There are about 957 housing units across 60938. Owners hold 82% of homes, renters 18%. 1,973 residents call 60938 home, typically aged 45. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 23/100. The poverty rate is 6.5% — low. Vacancy runs 15.1%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Median household income is $66,979, below the U.S. median near $78,000. Around 27% of renters are cost-burdened. The typical home is worth about $136,000 (1.8× income, relatively affordable). About 18% have a four-year degree.

Net-net, 60938 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. 60938 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

No ZIP is too small to score: 60938 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 16/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Where the record is thin for 60938, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.

Behind 60938'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. Practically, 60938 works as a screen — verify the reading, drill to the specific parcels driving it, and carry the deal through capital and closing on the platform.