Caddo Parish, LA
Housing, jobs, water, deposits and federal obligations for this county, each figure with the release it came from. Internal point 32.58, -93.89.
Assembled 2026-10-19. Read the brief.
- 17th pct · 2,539th of 3,063 US counties · median $230,451
- 38th pct · 40th of 64 Louisiana counties · median $170,587
- counties in the Shreveport-Bossier City metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 3 counties in the Shreveport-Bossier City metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- 73rd pct · 807th of 3,062 US counties · median +2.9%
- 79th pct · 14th of 64 Louisiana counties · median +2.5%
- counties in the Shreveport-Bossier City metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 3 counties in the Shreveport-Bossier City metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- 15th pct · 1,144th of 1,358 US counties · median $1,506
- 8th pct · 23rd of 25 Louisiana counties · median $1,356
- counties in the Shreveport-Bossier City metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 3 counties in the Shreveport-Bossier City metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- 91st pct · 276th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 93rd pct · 5th of 64 Louisiana counties · median 10,187
- counties in the Shreveport-Bossier City metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 3 counties in the Shreveport-Bossier City metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- 72nd pct · 878th of 3,221 US counties · median $1,039
- 65th pct · 23rd of 64 Louisiana counties · median $1,033
- counties in the Shreveport-Bossier City metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 3 counties in the Shreveport-Bossier City metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- 11th pct · 2,723rd of 3,063 US counties · median 4.2
- 22nd pct · 50th of 64 Louisiana counties · median 3.0
- counties in the Shreveport-Bossier City metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 3 counties in the Shreveport-Bossier City 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 $151,157 (Sep 2026), +4.9% over one year, +10.7% over five
- 17th pct · 2,539th of 3,063 US counties · median $230,451
- 38th pct · 40th of 64 Louisiana counties · median $170,587
- counties in the Shreveport-Bossier City metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 3 counties in the Shreveport-Bossier City metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Caddo Parish, LA | $151,157 · +4.9% 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 $1,118/mo (Sep 2026), +5.5% over one year; price-to-rent 11.3
- 15th pct · 1,144th of 1,358 US counties · median $1,506
- 8th pct · 23rd of 25 Louisiana counties · median $1,356
- counties in the Shreveport-Bossier City metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 3 counties in the Shreveport-Bossier City metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Caddo Parish, LA | $1,118/mo · +5.5% 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 $837 a month on $151,157 at 7.40%, against an average weekly wage worth $5,070 a month: 16.5% of one job’s pay.
- payment = P·r / (1 − (1+r)^−n), P = $151,157 × 80% = $120,925, r = 7.40%/12 (Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED, 2026-10-15), n = 360 → $837/mo principal and interest
- wage share = payment / (avg weekly wage $1,170 × 52 / 12 = $5,070) = 17% of one average job's pay (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all covered jobs)
- years of wages = $151,157 / ($1,170 × 52) = 2.5
- price-to-rent = $151,157 / ($1,118 × 12) = 11.3
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 #
109,120 jobs at 8,038 employers (2026 Q1); -0.9% jobs and +3.7% average weekly wage over the year
- 91st pct · 276th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 93rd pct · 5th of 64 Louisiana counties · median 10,187
- counties in the Shreveport-Bossier City metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 3 counties in the Shreveport-Bossier City metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Caddo Parish, LA | 109,120 jobs · $1,170/wk · -0.9% YoY |
| NAICS sector | Jobs | Avg weekly wage | Location quotient | Jobs over the year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health care and social assistance | 24,873 | $1,257 | 1.51 | +1.2% |
| Retail trade | 11,800 | $702 | 1.11 | -1.7% |
| Accommodation and food services | 9,929 | $451 | 1.01 | -3.2% |
| Manufacturing | 7,009 | $1,518 | 0.80 | +6.1% |
| Transportation and warehousing | 5,534 | $1,147 | 1.20 | -8.4% |
| Administrative and waste services | 5,157 | $748 | 0.83 | -10.3% |
| Construction | 5,071 | $1,282 | 0.89 | +1.5% |
| Wholesale trade | 4,680 | $1,546 | 1.12 | +1.5% |
| Professional and technical services | 4,174 | $1,519 | 0.55 | +0.3% |
| Other services | 2,763 | $863 | 0.85 | -0.3% |
| Finance and insurance | 2,474 | $1,856 | 0.56 | +1.5% |
| Mining, oil and gas | 2,106 | $1,892 | 5.42 | +8.4% |
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: 12, 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.
| Site | Reading | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Caddo Lake | 50 % full · 30k ac-ft | 15 km |
| Lake O the Pines | 91 % full · 241k ac-ft | 61 km |
| Martin Lake | 76 % full · 76k ac-ft | 74 km |
| Lake Cherokee | 77 % full · 40k ac-ft | 77 km |
| Murvaul Lake | 87 % full · 38k ac-ft | 79 km |
| Wright Patman Lake | 100 % full · 123k ac-ft | 85 km |
| Lake Bob Sandlin | 88 % full · 192k ac-ft | 118 km |
| Monticello Reservoir | 72 % full · 35k ac-ft | 122 km |
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 (0.33)
Σ wᵢ·termᵢ / Σ wᵢ = 0.35×0.50 + 0.3×0.14 / 0.65
Banks & federal dollars #
$5.9 bn in deposits at 69 offices of 22 banks (SOD June 2026); HHI 1,013, moderately concentrated. $1.7 bn federal obligations in FY2026 (direct payments $1.4 bn, grants $146.1 m), $15,257 per covered job
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| The Huntington National Bank | $959.8 m · 16.4% share · 6 offices | |
| Regions Bank | $790.6 m · 13.5% share · 8 offices | |
| JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association | $766.2 m · 13.1% share · 6 offices | |
| Caddo, LA | $1.7 bn FY2026 · $15,257/job | |
| MULTIPLE RECIPIENTS | $1.4 bn · top recipient FY2026 |
| Institution | Deposits | Share | Offices |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Huntington National Bank | $959,784,000 | 16.4% | 6 |
| Regions Bank | $790,563,000 | 13.5% | 8 |
| JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association | $766,240,000 | 13.1% | 6 |
| Origin Bank | $681,621,000 | 11.6% | 2 |
| Capital One, National Association | $483,810,000 | 8.3% | 3 |
| b1BANK | $393,746,000 | 6.7% | 4 |
| Bonvenu Bank, National Association | $374,511,000 | 6.4% | 3 |
| Home Federal Bank | $371,789,000 | 6.4% | 7 |
| Red River Bank | $367,318,000 | 6.3% | 4 |
| Community Bank of Louisiana | $157,241,000 | 2.7% | 4 |
Deposit concentration is 1,013 across 22 banks, which the 1995 Department of Justice bank merger screen calls moderately concentrated.
HHI = Σ (share %)² over 22 banks with deposits in the county = 16.4² + 13.5² + 13.1² + … (19 more) = 1,013
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 | $1,125,803,126 |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | $249,315,082 |
| Department of Transportation | $87,418,418 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | $50,149,380 |
| Department of Housing and Urban Development | $43,258,120 |
| Department of Defense | $34,142,170 |
| Department of Education | $29,525,718 |
| Railroad Retirement Board | $19,408,851 |
| Department of Labor | $11,385,606 |
| Department of Agriculture | $6,876,437 |
| Federal Communications Commission | $3,580,101 |
| General Services Administration | $2,815,747 |
That is $15,257 per covered job, against 109,120 jobs in the 2026 Q1 QCEW quarter.
per job = FY2026 obligations $1.7 bn / 109,120 covered jobs (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all ownerships) = $15,257
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 #
Caddo Parish, LA: 11 findings, 1 at a watch level and 10 noted
watchCaddo Parish, LA's covered employment is -0.9% 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 = -0.9 < 0
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published; not an official level
noteCaddo Parish, LA's 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
noteCaddo Parish, LA's covered employment was 0.9% 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
- -0.9 % = 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
noteCaddo Parish, LA's typical home value rose 0.3% from $150,742 in August 2026 to $151,157 in September 2026, on Zillow ZHVI.
Period 2026-09.Show the arithmetic
- +0.3% = (151156.84653032885 - 150741.8051893641) / 150741.8051893641 × 100
- 151156.84653032885 = Zillow ZHVI, 2026-09
- 150741.8051893641 = Zillow ZHVI, 2026-08
noteCaddo Parish, LA's price-to-rent ratio of 11.3 ranks 1,302nd of 1,358 US counties, against a median of 17.0.
Period 2026-09.Show the arithmetic
- 4 on the 0-to-100 scale across 1358 US counties that published priceToRent
- typical home value / (typical rent × 12); Zillow ZHVI over ZORI, same month
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.