ZIP 62573 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

In Macon County, Illinois, ZIP 62573 scores 17 of 100 for composite distress, a low level on DLRadar's public-record index. Its heaviest discrete signals: construction/permit lag (41/100), structural risk (36/100), mortgage stress (4/100). mortgage stress (4/100) and institutional ownership (3/100) stay muted. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (83/100). Latent structural risk is 36/100 while live distress already moving reads 1/100.

The market reads peak — home values rose 3.1% year on year, and 6% higher over three years (phase confidence 31/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

The poverty rate is 7.5%. 1,154 residents call 62573 home, typically aged 41. Median household income is $91,250, above the U.S. median near $78,000. The ZIP holds roughly 563 housing units. On demographic stress specifically, 62573 scores 24/100. Around 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Around 34% of renters are cost-burdened. A median home runs $160,600 here, or 1.6 times local income. Vacancy runs 12.7%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Owners hold 74% of homes, renters 26%.

Net-net, 62573 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. While 62573 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.

No ZIP is too small to score: 62573 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 17/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 62573 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

62573's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. For an operator, 62573 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.