Bibb County, GA
Housing, jobs, water, deposits and federal obligations for this county, each figure with the release it came from. Internal point 32.81, -83.69.
Assembled 2026-10-19. Read the brief.
- 24th pct · 2,303rd of 3,063 US counties · median $230,451
- 29th pct · 112th of 159 Georgia counties · median $215,610
- 25th pct · 4th of 5 counties in the Macon-Bibb County metro · median $206,348
- 44th pct · 1,703rd of 3,062 US counties · median +2.9%
- 48th pct · 83rd of 159 Georgia counties · median +2.5%
- 25th pct · 4th of 5 counties in the Macon-Bibb County metro · median +3.0%
- 22nd pct · 1,056th of 1,358 US counties · median $1,506
- 4th pct · 66th of 69 Georgia counties · median $1,701
- counties in the Macon-Bibb County metro: only 1 of counties in the Macon-Bibb County metro published this metric; fewer than 5 is too few to rank
- 88th pct · 358th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 93rd pct · 11th of 159 Georgia counties · median 7,095
- 100th pct · 1st of 5 counties in the Macon-Bibb County metro · median 4,629
- 68th pct · 1,012th of 3,221 US counties · median $1,039
- 79th pct · 33rd of 159 Georgia counties · median $964
- 75th pct · 2nd of 5 counties in the Macon-Bibb County metro · median $988
- 18th pct · 2,505th of 3,063 US counties · median 4.2
- 17th pct · 131st of 159 Georgia counties · median 4.2
- 25th pct · 4th of 5 counties in the Macon-Bibb County metro · median 4.9
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 $170,006 (Sep 2026), +2.4% over one year, +29.2% over five
- 24th pct · 2,303rd of 3,063 US counties · median $230,451
- 29th pct · 112th of 159 Georgia counties · median $215,610
- 25th pct · 4th of 5 counties in the Macon-Bibb County metro · median $206,348
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Bibb County, GA | $170,006 · +2.4% 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 $1,211/mo (Sep 2026), +2.9% over one year; price-to-rent 11.7
- 22nd pct · 1,056th of 1,358 US counties · median $1,506
- 4th pct · 66th of 69 Georgia counties · median $1,701
- counties in the Macon-Bibb County metro: only 1 of counties in the Macon-Bibb County metro published this metric; fewer than 5 is too few to rank
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Bibb County, GA | $1,211/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 $942 a month on $170,006 at 7.40%, against an average weekly wage worth $4,927 a month: 19.1% of one job’s pay.
- payment = P·r / (1 − (1+r)^−n), P = $170,006 × 80% = $136,005, r = 7.40%/12 (Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED, 2026-10-15), n = 360 → $942/mo principal and interest
- wage share = payment / (avg weekly wage $1,137 × 52 / 12 = $4,927) = 19% of one average job's pay (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all covered jobs)
- years of wages = $170,006 / ($1,137 × 52) = 2.9
- price-to-rent = $170,006 / ($1,211 × 12) = 11.7
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 #
79,563 jobs at 4,737 employers (2026 Q1); +1.0% jobs and +1.8% average weekly wage over the year
- 88th pct · 358th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 93rd pct · 11th of 159 Georgia counties · median 7,095
- 100th pct · 1st of 5 counties in the Macon-Bibb County metro · median 4,629
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Bibb County, GA | 79,563 jobs · $1,137/wk · +1.0% YoY |
| NAICS sector | Jobs | Avg weekly wage | Location quotient | Jobs over the year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health care and social assistance | 16,818 | $1,393 | 1.40 | +1.6% |
| Retail trade | 9,823 | $749 | 1.27 | -3.4% |
| Accommodation and food services | 8,293 | $431 | 1.16 | +2.3% |
| Manufacturing | 6,966 | $1,402 | 1.09 | +2.8% |
| Finance and insurance | 4,412 | $1,713 | 1.36 | -12.3% |
| Transportation and warehousing | 3,946 | $939 | 1.18 | +46.7% |
| Administrative and waste services | 3,519 | $846 | 0.78 | -7.7% |
| Educational services | 2,764 | $992 | 1.61 | +1.1% |
| Professional and technical services | 2,599 | $1,527 | 0.47 | +6.2% |
| Construction | 2,356 | $1,422 | 0.56 | +0.0% |
| Other services | 1,724 | $943 | 0.73 | -1.4% |
| Management of companies | 1,263 | $1,962 | 0.95 | -0.9% |
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 #
D2 severe 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 (0.50)
Σ wᵢ·termᵢ / Σ wᵢ = 0.35×0.50 / 0.35
Banks & federal dollars #
$4.9 bn in deposits at 36 offices of 14 banks (SOD June 2026); HHI 1,535, moderately concentrated. $1.3 bn federal obligations in FY2026 (direct payments $1.1 bn, grants $178.3 m), $16,951 per covered job
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| The Huntington National Bank | $1.3 bn · 26.8% share · 7 offices | |
| Truist Bank | $1.0 bn · 20.7% share · 5 offices | |
| Bank of America, National Association | $597.4 m · 12.3% share · 2 offices | |
| Bibb, GA | $1.3 bn FY2026 · $16,951/job |
| Institution | Deposits | Share | Offices |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Huntington National Bank | $1,307,239,000 | 26.8% | 7 |
| Truist Bank | $1,008,278,000 | 20.7% | 5 |
| Bank of America, National Association | $597,424,000 | 12.3% | 2 |
| American Pride Bank | $474,604,000 | 9.7% | 2 |
| Renasant Bank | $321,614,000 | 6.6% | 3 |
| Bank OZK | $264,424,000 | 5.4% | 3 |
| Wells Fargo Bank, National Association | $246,980,000 | 5.1% | 2 |
| Ameris Bank | $217,830,000 | 4.5% | 2 |
| Pinnacle Bank | $168,492,000 | 3.5% | 2 |
| Capital City Bank | $160,067,000 | 3.3% | 4 |
Deposit concentration is 1,535 across 14 banks, which the 1995 Department of Justice bank merger screen calls moderately concentrated.
HHI = Σ (share %)² over 14 banks with deposits in the county = 26.8² + 20.7² + 12.3² + … (11 more) = 1,535
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 | $733,225,829 |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | $171,172,597 |
| Department of Transportation | $125,485,890 |
| Department of Education | $94,728,089 |
| General Services Administration | $88,607,600 |
| Department of Housing and Urban Development | $62,099,773 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | $30,230,037 |
| Department of Defense | $23,571,851 |
| Railroad Retirement Board | $12,592,380 |
| Federal Communications Commission | $3,908,764 |
| Department of Justice | $3,005,439 |
| Department of Agriculture | $1,918,326 |
That is $16,951 per covered job, against 79,563 jobs in the 2026 Q1 QCEW quarter.
per job = FY2026 obligations $1.3 bn / 79,563 covered jobs (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all ownerships) = $16,951
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 #
Bibb County, GA: 11 findings, 11 noted
noteBibb County, GA'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
noteBibb County, GA'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
noteBibb County, GA's typical asking rent fell 0.3% from $1,214 in August 2026 to $1,211 in September 2026, on Zillow ZORI.
Period 2026-09.Show the arithmetic
- -0.3% = (1211.1205882978272 - 1214.360142002428) / 1214.360142002428 × 100
- 1211.1205882978272 = Zillow ZORI, 2026-09
- 1214.360142002428 = Zillow ZORI, 2026-08
noteBibb County, GA's covered employment of 79,563 ranks 1st of 5 counties in the Macon-Bibb County metro, against a median of 4,629.
Period 2026 Q1.Show the arithmetic
- 100 on the 0-to-100 scale across 5 counties in the Macon-Bibb County metro that published jobs.emp
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
noteBibb County, GA's typical asking rent of $1,211 ranks 66th of 69 Georgia counties, against a median of $1,701.
Period 2026-09.Show the arithmetic
- 4 on the 0-to-100 scale across 69 Georgia counties that published rent.latest
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
Read all 11 findings in the full brief
Every finding is produced by a fixed rule table and a fixed sentence for each rule. Nothing here is generated prose.