Brantley County, GA
Housing, jobs, water, deposits and federal obligations for this county, each figure with the release it came from. Internal point 31.20, -81.98.
Assembled 2026-10-19. Read the brief.
- 26th pct · 2,264th of 3,063 US counties · median $230,451
- 31st pct · 110th of 159 Georgia counties · median $215,610
- counties in the Brunswick-St. Simons metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 3 counties in the Brunswick-St. Simons metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- 90th pct · 302nd of 3,062 US counties · median +2.9%
- 88th pct · 19th of 159 Georgia counties · median +2.5%
- counties in the Brunswick-St. Simons metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 3 counties in the Brunswick-St. Simons metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- US counties: not published this period
- Georgia counties: not published this period
- counties in the Brunswick-St. Simons metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 3 counties in the Brunswick-St. Simons metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- 21st pct · 2,517th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 27th pct · 115th of 159 Georgia counties · median 7,095
- counties in the Brunswick-St. Simons metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 3 counties in the Brunswick-St. Simons metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- 17th pct · 2,668th of 3,221 US counties · median $1,039
- 22nd pct · 123rd of 159 Georgia counties · median $964
- counties in the Brunswick-St. Simons metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 3 counties in the Brunswick-St. Simons metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- 39th pct · 1,863rd of 3,063 US counties · median 4.2
- 36th pct · 101st of 159 Georgia counties · median 4.2
- counties in the Brunswick-St. Simons metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 3 counties in the Brunswick-St. Simons metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
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 $172,578 (Sep 2026), +7.7% over one year, +6.1% over five
- 26th pct · 2,264th of 3,063 US counties · median $230,451
- 31st pct · 110th of 159 Georgia counties · median $215,610
- counties in the Brunswick-St. Simons metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 3 counties in the Brunswick-St. Simons metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Brantley County, GA | $172,578 · +7.7% 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 #
Zillow publishes no rent index for this area (ZORI covers about 1,400 counties)
- US counties: not published this period
- Georgia counties: not published this period
- counties in the Brunswick-St. Simons metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 3 counties in the Brunswick-St. Simons metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
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 $956 a month on $172,578 at 7.40%, against an average weekly wage worth $3,848 a month: 24.8% of one job’s pay.
- payment = P·r / (1 − (1+r)^−n), P = $172,578 × 80% = $138,063, r = 7.40%/12 (Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED, 2026-10-15), n = 360 → $956/mo principal and interest
- wage share = payment / (avg weekly wage $888 × 52 / 12 = $3,848) = 25% of one average job's pay (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all covered jobs)
- years of wages = $172,578 / ($888 × 52) = 3.7
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 #
2,676 jobs at 258 employers (2026 Q1); -0.7% jobs and +2.5% average weekly wage over the year
- 21st pct · 2,517th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 27th pct · 115th of 159 Georgia counties · median 7,095
- counties in the Brunswick-St. Simons metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 3 counties in the Brunswick-St. Simons metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Brantley County, GA | 2,676 jobs · $888/wk · -0.7% YoY |
| NAICS sector | Jobs | Avg weekly wage | Location quotient | Jobs over the year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retail trade | 323 | $464 | 1.24 | +4.2% |
| Construction | 278 | $1,154 | 1.98 | +0.7% |
| Manufacturing | 197 | $1,024 | 0.92 | -2.0% |
| Health care and social assistance | 174 | $652 | 0.43 | -2.2% |
| Wholesale trade | 145 | $1,631 | 1.41 | -16.7% |
| Information | 69 | $1,531 | 1.40 | +0.0% |
| Other services | 36 | $555 | 0.45 | +0.0% |
| Finance and insurance | 35 | $858 | 0.32 | +0.0% |
| Professional and technical services | 29 | $787 | 0.16 | +7.4% |
| Real estate and rental | 19 | $330 | 0.46 | +171.4% |
| Unclassified | 9 | $764 | 1.58 | +0.0% |
| Agriculture, forestry, fishing | withheld |
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 #
D0 abnormally dry
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 #
No reservoir gauges within 150 km (or the camera is above the gauge altitude)
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 #
34 gauges · 1 flooding · 9 with quality panels averaging 79 % · 11 stale
Sites found: 34, 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.
| Site | Reading | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| USGS-311014081310802 | cond. 2,920 uS/cm · quality 0 % (1) | 44 km |
| HUDSON CREEK AT MERIDIAN LANDING, NEAR MERIDIAN,GA | stage 3.89 ft · quality 80 % (5) · no flooding | 65 km |
| SATILLA RIVER AT ATKINSON, GA | flow 7,690 ft³/s · quality 100 % (1) · MINOR flooding | 11 km |
| LITTLE SATILLA RIVER NEAR OFFERMAN, GA | flow 721.0 ft³/s | 29 km |
| Little Satilla River near Offerman | ACTION stage | 30 km |
| SATILLA RIVER NEAR WAYCROSS, GA | flow 3,770 ft³/s · ACTION stage | 33 km |
| SATILLA RIVER AT US 17, AT WOODBINE, GA | flow -15,300 ft³/s · ACTION stage | 35 km |
| ALABAHA RIVER AT GA 203, NEAR BLACKSHEAR, GA | flow 699.0 ft³/s · ACTION stage | 35 km |
| PENHOLOWAY CREEK NEAR JESUP, GA | flow 72.0 ft³/s · STALE | 43 km |
| ALTAMAHA RIVER NEAR EVERETT CITY, GA | flow 1,850 ft³/s · no flooding | 44 km |
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 #
93 wells in 4 named aquifers: Floridan aquifer system, Surficial aquifer system, Other aquifers…
Sites found: 93, 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.
| Site | Reading | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Floridan aquifer system | depth -20.2 ft · 2004-09-13 | 26 km |
| Other aquifers | depth -2.51 ft · 2026-09-22 | 28 km |
| Floridan aquifer system | depth 108.5 ft · 2026-10-18 | 28 km |
| USGS-311224081403801 | depth -19.7 ft · 2004-10-06 | 29 km |
| USGS-312714081524801 | depth 27.5 ft · 1987-01-20 | 30 km |
| USGS-311345081370401 | depth -19.0 ft · 1985-06-25 | 35 km |
| USGS-311530081363904 | depth -0.37 ft · 2026-10-06 | 36 km |
| USGS-311530081363901 | depth -7.86 ft · 2026-10-06 | 36 km |
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 #
low (0.08)
Σ wᵢ·termᵢ / Σ wᵢ = 0.35×0.00 + 0.2×0.21 / 0.55
Banks & federal dollars #
$105.6 m in deposits at 2 offices of 2 banks (SOD June 2026); HHI 6,790, highly concentrated. $108.5 m federal obligations in FY2026 (direct payments $108.3 m, contracts $94,849), $40,557 per covered job
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Southeastern Bank | $84.4 m · 79.9% share · 1 office | |
| Renasant Bank | $21.2 m · 20.1% share · 1 office | |
| Brantley, GA | $108.5 m FY2026 · $40,557/job | |
| MULTIPLE RECIPIENTS | $102.2 m · top recipient FY2026 |
| Institution | Deposits | Share | Offices |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southeastern Bank | $84,408,000 | 79.9% | 1 |
| Renasant Bank | $21,211,000 | 20.1% | 1 |
Deposit concentration is 6,790 across 2 banks, which the 1995 Department of Justice bank merger screen calls highly concentrated.
HHI = Σ (share %)² over 2 banks with deposits in the county = 79.9² + 20.1² = 6,790
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 | $82,328,249 |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | $15,439,802 |
| Department of Agriculture | $5,464,483 |
| Railroad Retirement Board | $4,410,073 |
| Federal Communications Commission | $685,969 |
| Department of Housing and Urban Development | $201,233 |
| Department of Homeland Security | $94,849 |
| Small Business Administration | $19,519 |
| Department of Transportation | -$114,154 |
That is $40,557 per covered job, against 2,676 jobs in the 2026 Q1 QCEW quarter.
per job = FY2026 obligations $108.5 m / 2,676 covered jobs (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all ownerships) = $40,557
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 #
Brantley County, GA: 7 findings, 1 at a watch level and 6 noted
watchBrantley County, GA's covered employment is -0.7% against a year earlier, a watch level here: covered employment below the same quarter a year earlier (BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published; not an official level). The previous published period is not in this table, so this is a standing level rather than a change.
Period 2026 Q1.Show the arithmetic
- test: jobs.yoy.emp = -0.7 < 0
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published; not an official level
noteBrantley County, GA's average weekly wage was 2.5% 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
- +2.5 % = 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
noteBrantley County, GA's covered employment was 0.7% lower 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
- -0.7 % = 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
noteBrantley County, GA's typical home value fell 0.5% from $173,423 in August 2026 to $172,578 in September 2026, on Zillow ZHVI.
Period 2026-09.Show the arithmetic
- -0.5% = (172578.28626884837 - 173422.5362980575) / 173422.5362980575 × 100
- 172578.28626884837 = Zillow ZHVI, 2026-09
- 173422.5362980575 = Zillow ZHVI, 2026-08
noteBrantley County, GA's typical home value of +7.7% ranks 302nd of 3,062 US counties, against a median of +2.9%.
Period 2026-09.Show the arithmetic
- 90 on the 0-to-100 scale across 3062 US counties that published home.yoyPct
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
Read all 7 findings in the full brief
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