ZIP 61042 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

On DLRadar's 0-100 public-record scale, ZIP 61042 in Lee County, Illinois comes in at 17, a low composite-distress reading. Structural risk reads 39/100 against active distress of 1/100. Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (84/100), structural risk (39/100), mortgage stress (3/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (3/100) and institutional ownership (3/100).

Prices here sit in a expansion phase: values rose 5.7% over the trailing year, at 33/100 phase confidence. Even climbing markets leave specific parcels in distress; the scoring isolates them.

Rent burden reaches 3% of tenant households. Roughly 18.5% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. Households earn a median $70,000 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure. Around 13% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The vacancy rate is 9.6%. A median home runs $153,600 here, or 1.8 times local income. On demographic stress specifically, 61042 scores 22/100. The ZIP holds roughly 194 housing units. Population is roughly 410 with a median age of 40. 79% of housing is owner-occupied.

On balance 61042 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. While 61042 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, 61042's 17/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Lee County, Illinois or any ZIP coast to coast. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 61042 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

The 17/100 for 61042 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. Treat 61042 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.