ZIP 62842 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Scored on a fixed 0-100 scale, 62842 (Wayne County, Illinois) returns a low composite of 17/100. Leading the profile are construction/permit lag (100/100), structural risk (39/100), mortgage stress (3/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (3/100) and institutional ownership (3/100) register low. Latent structural risk is 39/100 while live distress already moving reads 1/100.

Prices here sit in a expansion phase: values rose 5.3% over the trailing year, at 34/100 phase confidence. Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

The vacancy rate is 12.4% — elevated. The ZIP holds roughly 314 housing units. The tenure split is 88% owner-occupied to 12% rented. On demographic stress specifically, 62842 scores 27/100. A median home runs $116,500 here, or 1.8 times local income. Around 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 696 residents call 62842 home, typically aged 43. Roughly 10.4% live below the poverty line. At $62,500, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. Around 59% of renters are cost-burdened.

Taken together, 62842 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. No parcel file is published for 62842 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 62842's 17/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Wayne County, Illinois or any ZIP coast to coast. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed as records update; 62842 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

The 17/100 figure for 62842 is a composite, not one metric: it rolls up foreclosure and pre-foreclosure activity, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, local lender headwind, and structural risk into a single reading, which is why a ZIP can look calm on price yet score high on distress. Practically, 62842 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.