ZIP 62898 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Jefferson County, Illinois's ZIP 62898 registers 22/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (100/100), structural risk (49/100), mortgage stress (3/100). mortgage stress (3/100) and institutional ownership (3/100) stay muted. Structurally it carries 49/100, against 1/100 of stress already in motion. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (77/100).

Prices here sit in a expansion phase: values rose 5.7% over the trailing year, at 33/100 phase confidence. Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.

The tenure split is 87% owner-occupied to 13% rented. The vacancy rate is 12.8% — elevated. Rent burden reaches 12% of tenant households. Educational attainment sits at 25% bachelor's-or-above. Median household income is $74,297, near the U.S. median near $78,000. Home values center near $158,800, an affordability ratio of 2.0× — accessible. There are about 821 housing units across 62898. On demographic stress specifically, 62898 scores 21/100. 9.9% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Population is roughly 2,018 with a median age of 37.

Taken together, 62898 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. No parcel file is published for 62898 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

Big metro or rural, 62898 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 22/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Jefferson County, Illinois and the nation. Where the public record is thin for 62898, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.

The 22/100 figure for 62898 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. For a buyer, 62898 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.