ZIP 62998 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Scored on a fixed 0-100 scale, 62998 (Union County, Illinois) returns a minimal composite of 8/100. The sharpest non-environmental signals are structural risk (17/100), institutional ownership (3/100). By contrast, structural risk (17/100) and institutional ownership (3/100) register low. Structural risk reads 17/100 against active distress of 0/100.

The market reads expansion — home values rose 5.3% year on year (phase confidence 34/100). Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.

Median household income is $73,594, near the U.S. median near $78,000. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 38/100. Population is roughly 189 with a median age of 57. The vacancy rate is 18.9% — elevated. 95% of housing is owner-occupied. The poverty rate is 2.6% — low. There are about 140 housing units across 62998. Educational attainment sits at 47% bachelor's-or-above. Around 0% of renters are cost-burdened.

Net-net, 62998 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.

No ZIP is too small to score: 62998 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 8/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. 62998 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.

Each component behind 62998 - foreclosure, mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, lender pullback, structural exposure - is graded on its own before the 8/100 roll-up. The point of the 62998 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.