Faulkner County, AR
Housing, jobs, water, deposits and federal obligations for this county, each figure with the release it came from. Internal point 35.15, -92.34.
Assembled 2026-10-19. Read the brief.
- 58th pct · 1,259th of 3,063 US counties · median $230,451
- 93rd pct · 6th of 74 Arkansas counties · median $165,493
- 100th pct · 1st of 6 counties in the Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway metro · median $222,204
- 49th pct · 1,545th of 3,062 US counties · median +2.9%
- 45th pct · 41st of 74 Arkansas counties · median +3.0%
- 0th pct · 6th of 6 counties in the Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway metro · median +3.5%
- 32nd pct · 912th of 1,358 US counties · median $1,506
- 76th pct · 5th of 18 Arkansas counties · median $1,178
- counties in the Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway metro: only 4 of counties in the Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway metro published this metric; fewer than 5 is too few to rank
- 83rd pct · 544th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 93rd pct · 6th of 75 Arkansas counties · median 5,609
- 80th pct · 2nd of 6 counties in the Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway metro · median 22,110
- 38th pct · 1,977th of 3,221 US counties · median $1,039
- 75th pct · 19th of 75 Arkansas counties · median $912
- 60th pct · 3rd of 6 counties in the Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway metro · median $964
- 65th pct · 1,051st of 3,063 US counties · median 4.2
- 86th pct · 11th of 74 Arkansas counties · median 3.5
- 60th pct · 3rd of 6 counties in the Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway metro · median 4.5
Typical home value divided by the average annual wage of one covered job.
A percentile here is a min-max scaling of average rank: the smallest published value in the cohort is 0 and the largest is 100, and tied values share the average of the ranks they span. It is not the share of entities below the value, so 0 means smallest, not none below. Entities that did not publish the metric are outside the cohort entirely and are counted in neither the rank nor its denominator.
Home values #
Typical home $256,178 (Sep 2026), +2.8% over one year, +23.9% over five
- 58th pct · 1,259th of 3,063 US counties · median $230,451
- 93rd pct · 6th of 74 Arkansas counties · median $165,493
- 100th pct · 1st of 6 counties in the Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway metro · median $222,204
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Faulkner County, AR | $256,178 · +2.8% 1-yr |
Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), typical value of homes in the 35th to 65th percentile, smoothed and seasonally adjusted; a model estimate of value, not a sale price. Data through Zillow Research.
Rents #
Typical rent $1,323/mo (Sep 2026), +2.9% over one year; price-to-rent 16.1
- 32nd pct · 912th of 1,358 US counties · median $1,506
- 76th pct · 5th of 18 Arkansas counties · median $1,178
- counties in the Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway metro: only 4 of counties in the Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway metro published this metric; fewer than 5 is too few to rank
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Faulkner County, AR | $1,323/mo · +2.9% 1-yr |
Zillow Observed Rent Index (ZORI), smoothed, all homes and multifamily; price-to-rent = typical home / (typical rent × 12).
What the typical home costs to carry #
Principal and interest of $1,419 a month on $256,178 at 7.40%, against an average weekly wage worth $4,281 a month: 33.1% of one job’s pay.
- payment = P·r / (1 − (1+r)^−n), P = $256,178 × 80% = $204,942, r = 7.40%/12 (Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED, 2026-10-15), n = 360 → $1,419/mo principal and interest
- wage share = payment / (avg weekly wage $988 × 52 / 12 = $4,281) = 33% of one average job's pay (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all covered jobs)
- years of wages = $256,178 / ($988 × 52) = 5.0
- price-to-rent = $256,178 / ($1,323 × 12) = 16.1
The wage is one covered job’s average, not a household’s income, so this is the share of a single paycheque and not a mortgage underwriting ratio.
Estimate. Principal and interest on the typical home with 20% down over 30 years at this week's Freddie Mac average rate; compared with the average weekly wage of all jobs covered by unemployment insurance in the area (BLS QCEW), which is pay per job, not household income.
Jobs & wages #
46,418 jobs at 3,395 employers (2026 Q1); +1.0% jobs and +1.8% average weekly wage over the year
- 83rd pct · 544th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 93rd pct · 6th of 75 Arkansas counties · median 5,609
- 80th pct · 2nd of 6 counties in the Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway metro · median 22,110
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Faulkner County, AR | 46,418 jobs · $988/wk · +1.0% YoY |
| NAICS sector | Jobs | Avg weekly wage | Location quotient | Jobs over the year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health care and social assistance | 8,396 | $1,043 | 1.20 | +2.4% |
| Retail trade | 6,207 | $695 | 1.37 | -2.4% |
| Accommodation and food services | 5,637 | $404 | 1.35 | +4.8% |
| Construction | 3,769 | $1,144 | 1.55 | -0.6% |
| Manufacturing | 3,043 | $1,190 | 0.81 | -3.0% |
| Administrative and waste services | 2,316 | $1,032 | 0.88 | -0.6% |
| Professional and technical services | 1,492 | $1,181 | 0.47 | -0.7% |
| Wholesale trade | 1,377 | $1,488 | 0.77 | +14.4% |
| Other services | 1,348 | $782 | 0.97 | +8.2% |
| Information | 1,221 | $2,177 | 1.43 | -6.6% |
| Finance and insurance | 1,184 | $1,639 | 0.63 | +5.1% |
| Educational services | 824 | $690 | 0.83 | +1.5% |
BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, all ownerships, total covered employment in the quarter's third month; over-the-year changes as published. Suppressed cells stay blank.
Drought #
D3 extreme drought
Sites found: 5, searched within 0 km of this place’s internal point. That is a disc around a point, not the area itself: sites outside the boundary are included, and sites inside it further than 0 km away are not.
US Drought Monitor current week; the highest class of any polygon containing the point.
Reservoirs #
Surface water layer not loaded
Sites found: 0, searched within 150 km of this place’s internal point. That is a disc around a point, not the area itself: sites outside the boundary are included, and sites inside it further than 150 km away are not.
Σ(capacity × percent full) / Σ capacity over TWDB reservoirs within 150 km. Texas only; elsewhere USGS reservoir elevation/storage is listed without a capacity to normalise by.
Stream gauges #
Surface water layer not loaded
Sites found: 0, searched within 75 km of this place’s internal point. That is a disc around a point, not the area itself: sites outside the boundary are included, and sites inside it further than 75 km away are not.
USGS latest readings screened against EPA freshwater criteria (DO ≥ 5 mg/L, pH 6.5–9, conductance, turbidity, temperature); NWS flood categories where a NWPS gauge is co-located.
Groundwater #
No USGS monitoring wells within 75 km (or above 1,500 km)
Sites found: 0, searched within 75 km of this place’s internal point. That is a disc around a point, not the area itself: sites outside the boundary are included, and sites inside it further than 75 km away are not.
USGS latest daily water levels. A single latest reading says where the table is, not which way it is moving; select a well for its 365-day trace.
Water stress #
high (0.75)
Σ wᵢ·termᵢ / Σ wᵢ = 0.35×0.75 / 0.35
Banks & federal dollars #
$3.6 bn in deposits at 44 offices of 17 banks (SOD June 2026); HHI 1,865, highly concentrated. $755.5 m federal obligations in FY2026 (direct payments $714.8 m, grants $22.1 m), $16,276 per covered job
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Centennial Bank | $1.2 bn · 33.4% share · 10 offices | |
| First Security Bank | $825.1 m · 23.0% share · 8 offices | |
| First Service Bank | $286.8 m · 8.0% share · 3 offices | |
| Faulkner, AR | $755.5 m FY2026 · $16,276/job | |
| MULTIPLE RECIPIENTS | $678.4 m · top recipient FY2026 |
| Institution | Deposits | Share | Offices |
|---|---|---|---|
| Centennial Bank | $1,196,444,000 | 33.4% | 10 |
| First Security Bank | $825,052,000 | 23.0% | 8 |
| First Service Bank | $286,753,000 | 8.0% | 3 |
| Arvest Bank | $220,367,000 | 6.1% | 3 |
| Simmons Bank | $213,651,000 | 6.0% | 2 |
| Bank OZK | $211,566,000 | 5.9% | 4 |
| Regions Bank | $157,473,000 | 4.4% | 2 |
| Bank of America, National Association | $138,525,000 | 3.9% | 1 |
| First Community Bank | $89,759,000 | 2.5% | 1 |
| U.S. Bank National Association | $78,528,000 | 2.2% | 1 |
Deposit concentration is 1,865 across 17 banks, which the 1995 Department of Justice bank merger screen calls highly concentrated.
HHI = Σ (share %)² over 17 banks with deposits in the county = 33.4² + 23.0² + 8.0² + … (14 more) = 1,865
FDIC Summary of Deposits: deposits at every insured office as of June 30, annual; HHI is the sum of squared county deposit shares (DOJ 1995 bank merger screen: 1000 / 1800). USAspending: obligations by place of performance for the latest complete federal fiscal year (Oct 1 to Sep 30), what agencies committed, not what they paid out; recipients are legal entities. Per-job divides obligations by BLS QCEW covered employment.
Federal obligations #
USAspending place-of-performance obligations for FY2026, by awarding agency.
| Awarding agency | Obligations |
|---|---|
| Social Security Administration | $558,029,486 |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | $107,908,061 |
| Department of Education | $33,914,910 |
| Department of the Interior | $18,819,923 |
| Department of Transportation | $14,240,631 |
| Railroad Retirement Board | $12,897,361 |
| Department of Housing and Urban Development | $4,021,457 |
| Department of Agriculture | $2,621,570 |
| Federal Communications Commission | $1,122,310 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | $1,019,877 |
| Department of Justice | $551,482 |
| Department of Defense | $294,810 |
That is $16,276 per covered job, against 46,418 jobs in the 2026 Q1 QCEW quarter.
per job = FY2026 obligations $755.5 m / 46,418 covered jobs (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all ownerships) = $16,276
USAspending obligations are recorded where the work is performed, so a prime award performed here is counted here even when the recipient is headquartered elsewhere. Recipients are legal entities, never people.
National context, not this county #
These are United States, single-gauge, single-state and port series. None of them is keyed to this county.
| Series | Latest | As of | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi River at Memphis, stage · ft | not published | not published | |
| Mississippi River at St. Louis, stage · ft | not published | not published | |
| Ohio River at Louisville, stage · ft | 17.95 | 2026-10-18 | -2.6% |
| Missouri River at St. Joseph, stage · ft | not published | not published | |
| Colorado River below Hoover Dam, flow (Hoover releases) · ft³/s | 5,170.00 | 2026-02-05 | -25.3% |
| Texas reservoirs, statewide percent full · % | 72.20 | 2026-10-19 | +0.0% |
| Laredo truck crossings, monthly · trucks | 258,700.00 | 2026-08-01 | -0.4% |
| Los Angeles + Long Beach container volume, annual · TEU | 10,513,167.00 | 2023-01-01 | -13.5% |
| Containerships waiting for a berth, all US ports · ships | 7.00 | 2026-10-13 | +133.3% |
| Shanghai to Los Angeles container rate · $ per 40 ft box | 7,848.00 | 2026-09-01 | +14.9% |
| US diesel retail price · $ per gallon | unavailable | not published | |
| WTI crude oil, spot · $ per barrel | 101.91 | 2026-10-14 | +1.0% |
| 30-year fixed mortgage rate · % | 7.40 | 2026-10-15 | +0.0% |
| Housing starts, annual rate · thousands of units | 1,275.00 | 2026-08-01 | -2.6% |
| Building permits, annual rate · thousands of units | 1,403.00 | 2026-08-01 | -2.1% |
| Case-Shiller US home price index · index, Jan 2000 = 100 | 337.31 | 2026-07-01 | +0.1% |
| Unemployment rate · % | 4.20 | 2026-09-01 | +2.4% |
| US goods and services trade balance, monthly · $ millions | -105,572.00 | 2026-08-01 | -13.7% |
| Retail sales excluding food services, monthly · $ millions | 652,115.00 | 2026-09-01 | +0.7% |
The indicator registry has no county-keyed series and no geographic selection: every entry is national, a named gauge, a single state or a port. They are here as the backdrop the county's own numbers move against, and they are never this county's readings.
What changed #
Faulkner County, AR: 13 findings, 3 at a watch level and 10 noted
watchFaulkner County, AR's typical asking rent of $1,323 scores 33 on the 0-to-100 scale across US counties but 76 across Arkansas counties, a gap of 44 points.
Period 2026-09.Show the arithmetic
- 44 = |33 across US counties - 76 across Arkansas counties|
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
watchFaulkner County, AR's average weekly wage of $988 scores 39 on the 0-to-100 scale across US counties but 75 across Arkansas counties, a gap of 36 points.
Period 2026 Q1.Show the arithmetic
- 36 = |39 across US counties - 75 across Arkansas counties|
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
watchFaulkner County, AR's typical home value of $256,178 scores 59 on the 0-to-100 scale across US counties but 93 across Arkansas counties, a gap of 34 points.
Period 2026-09.Show the arithmetic
- 34 = |59 across US counties - 93 across Arkansas counties|
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
noteFaulkner County, AR's average weekly wage was 1.8% higher than the same quarter a year earlier in 2026 Q1, on BLS QCEW's published over-the-year change.
Period 2026 Q1.Show the arithmetic
- +1.8 % = BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change for 2026 Q1, as published
- the newest QCEW file carries no year-earlier level, so no move from one level to another is printed
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published
noteFaulkner County, AR's covered employment was 1.0% higher than the same quarter a year earlier in 2026 Q1, on BLS QCEW's published over-the-year change.
Period 2026 Q1.Show the arithmetic
- +1 % = BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change for 2026 Q1, as published
- the newest QCEW file carries no year-earlier level, so no move from one level to another is printed
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published
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