ZIP 61606 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Composite property distress in 61606 (Peoria County, Illinois) lands at 22/100 — low on DLRadar's distress scoring. What sets it apart are the readings on structural risk (50/100), construction/permit lag (44/100), institutional ownership (14/100). On the quiet end sit institutional ownership (14/100) and mortgage stress (3/100). It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (90/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (60/100). Structurally it carries 50/100, against 1/100 of stress already in motion.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.6% over the trailing year, and 16% higher over three years (phase confidence 49/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

About 40% have a four-year degree. 26.5% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. The ZIP holds roughly 3,059 housing units. A median home runs $142,700 here, or 2.9 times local income. Households earn a median $41,023 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. The tenure split is 42% owner-occupied to 58% rented. Rent burden reaches 60% of tenant households. On demographic stress specifically, 61606 scores 36/100. About 6,979 people live here, median age 22. The vacancy rate is 13.7% — elevated.

On the whole, 61606 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. 61606 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

Big metro or rural, 61606 runs through one identical scoring model, so its 22/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Peoria County, Illinois and the nation. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 61606, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

Behind 61606'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. For a buyer, 61606 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.