ZIP 62617 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP code 62617 in Mason County, Illinois carries a composite property-distress score of 17/100 — a low reading on DLRadar's deterministic distress index. Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (100/100), structural risk (39/100), mortgage stress (4/100). mortgage stress (4/100) and institutional ownership (3/100) stay muted. Structural risk reads 39/100 against active distress of 1/100.

Prices here sit in a expansion phase: values rose 5.3% over the trailing year (phase confidence 34/100). Even climbing markets leave specific parcels in distress; the scoring isolates them.

The ZIP holds roughly 389 housing units. The vacancy rate is 25.6% — elevated. About 542 people live here, median age 56. Educational attainment sits at 13% bachelor's-or-above. 11.3% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Rent burden reaches 20% of tenant households. 91% of housing is owner-occupied. Households earn a median $56,250 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. A median home runs $69,000 here, or 1.4 times local income. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 22/100.

Net-net, 62617 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. No parcel file is published for 62617 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

The 62617 read uses the identical scoring model applied coast to coast, which means its 17/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 62617 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Mason County, Illinois. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 62617, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

The 17/100 for 62617 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. Practically, 62617 works as a screen — verify the reading, drill to the specific parcels driving it, and carry the deal through capital and closing on the platform.