ZIP 61006 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP 61006's composite property-distress score is 20/100 - DLRadar classes that as low for Lee County, Illinois. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (62/100). Structurally it carries 45/100, against 1/100 of stress already in motion. The most distinctive pressure shows up in construction/permit lag (90/100), structural risk (45/100), institutional ownership (6/100). institutional ownership (6/100) and mortgage stress (4/100) stay muted.

The expansion-phase market in 61006 posted values that rose 5.7% over the year, and 32% higher over three years (phase confidence 33/100). Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.

Households earn a median $71,429 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure. On demographic stress specifically, 61006 scores 23/100. The poverty rate is 9.7%. 71% of housing is owner-occupied. Around 14% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The typical home is worth about $155,500 (2.1× income, relatively affordable). The vacancy rate is 8.4%. 1,361 residents call 61006 home, typically aged 52. Around 16% of renters are cost-burdened. The ZIP holds roughly 699 housing units.

On balance 61006 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.

No ZIP is too small to score: 61006 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 20/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 61006 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

The 20/100 figure for 61006 is a composite, not one metric: it rolls up foreclosure and pre-foreclosure activity, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, local lender headwind, and structural risk into a single reading, which is why a ZIP can look calm on price yet score high on distress. Treat 61006 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.