ZIP 62888 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

In Perry County, Illinois, ZIP 62888 scores 11 of 100 for composite distress, a minimal level on DLRadar's distress index. The latent-versus-live split is 22/100 structural and 1/100 already moving. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (70/100). Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (22/100), mortgage stress (4/100), institutional ownership (3/100). mortgage stress (4/100) and institutional ownership (3/100) stay muted.

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.

There are about 968 housing units across 62888. 4.5% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Vacancy runs 14.4%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 22/100. 1,881 residents call 62888 home, typically aged 45. At $69,231, median income runs near typical U.S. levels. The typical home is worth about $112,500 (1.7× income, relatively affordable). Rent burden reaches 24% of tenant households. Owners hold 89% of homes, renters 11%. About 10% have a four-year degree.

Taken together, 62888 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. While 62888 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.

The 62888 read uses the identical scoring model applied coast to coast, which means its 11/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 62888 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Perry County, Illinois. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed as records update; 62888 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

62888's score blends several independent layers — foreclosure and mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, bank headwind and structural exposure — into one 0–100 number, so understanding the components matters as much as the headline for anyone screening the ZIP. For a buyer, 62888 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.