ZIP 60973 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP code 60973 in Iroquois County, Illinois carries a composite property-distress score of 17/100 — a low reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. Its standout signals are construction/permit lag (58/100), structural risk (38/100), mortgage stress (3/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (3/100) and institutional ownership (3/100) register low. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (75/100). Structural exposure scores 38 and live distress 1 on the 0–100 scale.

The market reads expansion — home values rose 5.3% year on year, at 34/100 phase confidence. Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

Households earn a median $63,750 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Around 9% of renters are cost-burdened. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 20/100. Educational attainment sits at 8% bachelor's-or-above. Owners hold 81% of homes, renters 19%. Vacancy runs 11.8%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. The typical home is worth about $75,600 (1.2× income, relatively affordable). About 382 people live here, median age 28. Roughly 7.3% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas. The ZIP holds roughly 117 housing units.

Net-net, 60973 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.

Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 60973's 17/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Iroquois County, Illinois or any ZIP coast to coast. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 60973, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

60973's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. The point of the 60973 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.