ZIP 62521 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Macon County, Illinois's ZIP 62521 registers 17/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. The split runs 36/100 structural to 1/100 active on the ground. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (83/100). Its standout signals are construction/permit lag (41/100), structural risk (36/100), mortgage stress (4/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (4/100) and institutional ownership (3/100).

The peak-phase market in 62521 posted values that rose 3.1% over the year, and 22% higher over three years (phase confidence 31/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

Home values center near $125,100, an affordability ratio of 1.8× — accessible. Roughly 12.5% live below the poverty line. The tenure split is 74% owner-occupied to 26% rented. The vacancy rate is 13.4% — elevated. About 32,455 people live here, median age 43. The ZIP holds roughly 16,335 housing units. On demographic stress specifically, 62521 scores 25/100. Median household income is $66,848, below the U.S. median near $78,000. Rent burden reaches 34% of tenant households. About 22% have a four-year degree.

Net-net, 62521 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. 62521 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

Whether 62521 runs hot or quiet, its 17/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 62521 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Macon County, Illinois or nationwide. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 62521 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

62521's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. For a buyer, 62521 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.