Sedgwick County, KS
Housing, jobs, water, deposits and federal obligations for this county, each figure with the release it came from. Internal point 37.68, -97.46.
Assembled 2026-10-19. Read the brief.
- 47th pct · 1,621st of 3,063 US counties · median $230,451
- 85th pct · 16th of 105 Kansas counties · median $148,146
- counties in the Wichita metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 4 counties in the Wichita metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- 46th pct · 1,648th of 3,062 US counties · median +2.9%
- 31st pct · 72nd of 105 Kansas counties · median +4.1%
- counties in the Wichita metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 4 counties in the Wichita metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- 22nd pct · 1,053rd of 1,358 US counties · median $1,506
- 50th pct · 10th of 19 Kansas counties · median $1,215
- counties in the Wichita metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 4 counties in the Wichita metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- 96th pct · 121st of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 99th pct · 2nd of 105 Kansas counties · median 2,554
- counties in the Wichita metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 4 counties in the Wichita metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- 83rd pct · 523rd of 3,221 US counties · median $1,039
- 96th pct · 5th of 105 Kansas counties · median $943
- counties in the Wichita metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 4 counties in the Wichita metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- 29th pct · 2,159th of 3,063 US counties · median 4.2
- 58th pct · 44th of 105 Kansas counties · median 3.0
- counties in the Wichita metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 4 counties in the Wichita 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 $223,622 (Sep 2026), +2.6% over one year, +29.7% over five
- 47th pct · 1,621st of 3,063 US counties · median $230,451
- 85th pct · 16th of 105 Kansas counties · median $148,146
- counties in the Wichita metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 4 counties in the Wichita metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Sedgwick County, KS | $223,622 · +2.6% 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 $1,215/mo (Sep 2026), +4.2% over one year; price-to-rent 15.3
- 22nd pct · 1,053rd of 1,358 US counties · median $1,506
- 50th pct · 10th of 19 Kansas counties · median $1,215
- counties in the Wichita metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 4 counties in the Wichita metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Sedgwick County, KS | $1,215/mo · +4.2% 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 $1,239 a month on $223,622 at 7.40%, against an average weekly wage worth $5,573 a month: 22.2% of one job’s pay.
- payment = P·r / (1 − (1+r)^−n), P = $223,622 × 80% = $178,898, r = 7.40%/12 (Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED, 2026-10-15), n = 360 → $1,239/mo principal and interest
- wage share = payment / (avg weekly wage $1,286 × 52 / 12 = $5,573) = 22% of one average job's pay (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all covered jobs)
- years of wages = $223,622 / ($1,286 × 52) = 3.3
- price-to-rent = $223,622 / ($1,215 × 12) = 15.3
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 #
267,086 jobs at 14,701 employers (2026 Q1); +0.8% jobs and +3.7% average weekly wage over the year
- 96th pct · 121st of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 99th pct · 2nd of 105 Kansas counties · median 2,554
- counties in the Wichita metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 4 counties in the Wichita metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Sedgwick County, KS | 267,086 jobs · $1,286/wk · +0.8% YoY |
| NAICS sector | Jobs | Avg weekly wage | Location quotient | Jobs over the year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manufacturing | 47,963 | $1,845 | 2.23 | +2.6% |
| Health care and social assistance | 38,882 | $1,049 | 0.97 | +3.7% |
| Retail trade | 26,283 | $736 | 1.01 | -1.0% |
| Accommodation and food services | 24,991 | $441 | 1.04 | +2.0% |
| Construction | 15,360 | $1,276 | 1.10 | +0.0% |
| Administrative and waste services | 14,367 | $1,330 | 0.95 | -7.3% |
| Professional and technical services | 11,741 | $1,662 | 0.64 | -3.8% |
| Transportation and warehousing | 9,887 | $1,126 | 0.88 | +1.9% |
| Wholesale trade | 9,198 | $1,880 | 0.90 | +2.5% |
| Finance and insurance | 7,316 | $2,224 | 0.67 | -2.0% |
| Other services | 7,078 | $1,011 | 0.89 | +0.0% |
| Arts, entertainment and recreation | 4,708 | $516 | 1.07 | +8.2% |
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 #
D1 moderate 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 #
moderate (0.25)
Σ wᵢ·termᵢ / Σ wᵢ = 0.35×0.25 / 0.35
Banks & federal dollars #
$19.8 bn in deposits at 151 offices of 38 banks (SOD June 2026); HHI 1,177, moderately concentrated. $3.4 bn federal obligations in FY2026 (direct payments $2.9 bn, contracts $328.3 m), $12,653 per covered job
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Bank of America, National Association | $4.3 bn · 21.9% share · 8 offices | |
| Intrust Bank, National Association | $3.8 bn · 19.3% share · 16 offices | |
| Fidelity Bank, National Association | $2.3 bn · 11.5% share · 10 offices | |
| Sedgwick, KS | $3.4 bn FY2026 · $12,653/job |
| Institution | Deposits | Share | Offices |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bank of America, National Association | $4,342,589,000 | 21.9% | 8 |
| Intrust Bank, National Association | $3,816,559,000 | 19.3% | 16 |
| Fidelity Bank, National Association | $2,272,435,000 | 11.5% | 10 |
| Emprise Bank | $1,798,577,000 | 9.1% | 18 |
| Equity Bank | $1,195,135,000 | 6.0% | 4 |
| Commerce Bank | $1,072,730,000 | 5.4% | 7 |
| Busey Bank | $580,726,000 | 2.9% | 1 |
| Legacy Bank | $573,574,000 | 2.9% | 8 |
| Capitol Federal Savings Bank | $556,607,000 | 2.8% | 8 |
| Southwest National Bank | $403,829,000 | 2.0% | 9 |
Deposit concentration is 1,177 across 38 banks, which the 1995 Department of Justice bank merger screen calls moderately concentrated.
HHI = Σ (share %)² over 38 banks with deposits in the county = 21.9² + 19.3² + 11.5² + … (35 more) = 1,177
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 #
That is $12,653 per covered job, against 267,086 jobs in the 2026 Q1 QCEW quarter.
per job = FY2026 obligations $3.4 bn / 267,086 covered jobs (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all ownerships) = $12,653
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 #
Sedgwick County, KS: 10 findings, 1 at a watch level and 9 noted
watchSedgwick County, KS' typical home value of $223,622 scores 47 on the 0-to-100 scale across US counties but 86 across Kansas counties, a gap of 38 points.
Period 2026-09.Show the arithmetic
- 38 = |47 across US counties - 86 across Kansas counties|
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
noteSedgwick County, KS' average weekly wage was 3.7% 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
- +3.7 % = 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
noteSedgwick County, KS' covered employment was 0.8% 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
- +0.8 % = 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
noteSedgwick County, KS' typical asking rent rose 0.6% from $1,209 in August 2026 to $1,215 in September 2026, on Zillow ZORI.
Period 2026-09.Show the arithmetic
- +0.6% = (1215.3620338752514 - 1208.6836202916215) / 1208.6836202916215 × 100
- 1215.3620338752514 = Zillow ZORI, 2026-09
- 1208.6836202916215 = Zillow ZORI, 2026-08
noteSedgwick County, KS' covered employment of 267,086 ranks 2nd of 105 Kansas counties, against a median of 2,554.
Period 2026 Q1.Show the arithmetic
- 99 on the 0-to-100 scale across 105 Kansas counties that published jobs.emp
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
Read all 10 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.