ZIP 61252 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP 61252's composite property-distress score is 19/100 - DLRadar classes that as low for Whiteside County, Illinois. Structural risk reads 43/100 against active distress of 2/100. The pressure is most legible in construction/permit lag (46/100), structural risk (43/100), institutional ownership (14/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (14/100) and mortgage stress (7/100) register low. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (66/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (61/100).

The expansion-phase market in 61252 posted values that rose 5.7% over the year, and 9% higher over three years, at 33/100 phase confidence. Even climbing markets leave specific parcels in distress; the scoring isolates them.

About 5,369 people live here, median age 49. The tenure split is 81% owner-occupied to 19% rented. A median home runs $141,500 here, or 2.3 times local income. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 30/100. The vacancy rate is 13.0% — elevated. The poverty rate is 10.3%. About 19% have a four-year degree. There are about 2,675 housing units across 61252. Around 64% of renters are cost-burdened. Households earn a median $62,202 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure.

Net-net, 61252 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. 61252 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: 61252 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 19/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 61252 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

The 19/100 for 61252 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. For an operator, 61252 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.