Fleming County, KY

Home values #

Typical home $179,466 (Sep 2026), +1.2% over one year, +49.2% over five

• 29th pct · 2,165th of 3,063 US counties · median $230,451
• 52nd pct · 58th of 120 Kentucky counties · median $179,218

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
• Kentucky counties: not published this period

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 $994 a month on $179,466 at 7.40%, against an average weekly wage worth $3,995 a month: 24.9% of one job’s pay.

• payment = P·r / (1 − (1+r)^−n), P = $179,466 × 80% = $143,573, r = 7.40%/12 (Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED, 2026-10-15), n = 360 → $994/mo principal and interest
• wage share = payment / (avg weekly wage $922 × 52 / 12 = $3,995) = 25% of one average job's pay (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all covered jobs)
• years of wages = $179,466 / ($922 × 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 #

3,293 jobs at 453 employers (2026 Q1); +0.1% jobs and +4.5% average weekly wage over the year

• 26th pct · 2,352nd of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
• 37th pct · 75th of 120 Kentucky counties · median 5,237

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 #

No drought class at this point (USDM covers the United States only)

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 #

49 gauges · 0 flooding · 4 with quality panels averaging 100 % · 12 stale

Sites found: 49, 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 #

17 wells in 1 named aquifer: Silurian-Devonian aquifers

Sites found: 17, 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 #

low (0.00)

Σ wᵢ·termᵢ / Σ wᵢ = 0.35×0.00 + 0.2×0.00 / 0.55

Banks & federal dollars #

$438.5 m in deposits at 8 offices of 2 banks (SOD June 2026); HHI 5,049, highly concentrated. $99.7 m federal obligations in FY2026 (direct payments $91.9 m, grants $7.8 m), $30,277 per covered job

Deposit concentration is 5,049 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 = 55.0² + 45.0² = 5,049

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.

That is $30,277 per covered job, against 3,293 jobs in the 2026 Q1 QCEW quarter.

per job = FY2026 obligations $99.7 m / 3,293 covered jobs (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all ownerships) = $30,277

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.

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 #

Fleming County, KY: 6 findings, 1 at a watch level and 5 noted

1. watchFleming County, KY's typical home value of +1.2% scores 32 on the 0-to-100 scale across US counties but 73 across Kentucky counties, a gap of 41 points.

   Period 2026-09.
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   • 41 = |32 across US counties - 73 across Kentucky counties|

   position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level

2. noteFleming County, KY's average weekly wage was 4.5% higher than the same quarter a year earlier in 2026 Q1, on BLS QCEW's published over-the-year change.

   Period 2026 Q1.
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   • +4.5 % = 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

3. noteFleming County, KY's typical home value rose 0.3% from $178,854 in August 2026 to $179,466 in September 2026, on Zillow ZHVI.

   Period 2026-09.
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   • +0.3% = (179465.95483323492 - 178854.2995391926) / 178854.2995391926 × 100
   • 179465.95483323492 = Zillow ZHVI, 2026-09
   • 178854.2995391926 = Zillow ZHVI, 2026-08

4. noteFleming County, KY's covered employment was 0.1% higher than the same quarter a year earlier in 2026 Q1, on BLS QCEW's published over-the-year change.

   Period 2026 Q1.
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   • +0.1 % = 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

5. noteThe next Unemployment rate (BLS Employment Situation, monthly) covering Fleming County, KY is due between 2026-10-30 and 2026-11-13, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern.

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   • window = 2026-10-30 to 2026-11-13, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern

   estimated from the publisher's past release pattern; not an announced date

Read all 6 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.