ZIP 62551 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 62551 (Macon County, Illinois) at a low 23/100 for overall property distress. Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (98/100), structural risk (50/100), mortgage stress (4/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (4/100) and institutional ownership (3/100). On the structural side it scores 50/100, with 1/100 of stress already active. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (83/100)).

The peak-phase market in 62551 posted values that rose 4.5% over the year, 2.1% off the recent peak (phase confidence 34/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

The vacancy rate is 10.0%. 83% of housing is owner-occupied. Population is roughly 908 with a median age of 35. Around 26% of renters are cost-burdened. The poverty rate is 7.9%. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 23/100. At $65,000, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. The typical home is worth about $129,200 (1.8× income, relatively affordable). Around 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The ZIP holds roughly 333 housing units.

On balance 62551 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.