Catahoula Parish, LA
Housing, jobs, water, deposits and federal obligations for this county, each figure with the release it came from. Internal point 31.67, -91.85.
Assembled 2026-10-19. Read the brief.
- 7th pct · 2,840th of 3,063 US counties · median $230,451
- 15th pct · 54th of 64 Louisiana counties · median $170,587
- 99th pct · 17th of 3,062 US counties · median +2.9%
- 100th pct · 1st of 64 Louisiana counties · median +2.5%
- US counties: not published this period
- Louisiana counties: not published this period
- 18th pct · 2,612th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 7th pct · 59th of 64 Louisiana counties · median 10,187
- 4th pct · 3,071st of 3,221 US counties · median $1,039
- 3rd pct · 61st of 64 Louisiana counties · median $1,033
- 20th pct · 2,443rd of 3,063 US counties · median 4.2
- 46th pct · 35th of 64 Louisiana counties · median 3.0
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 $119,514 (Sep 2026), +14.8% over one year, +2.0% over five
- 7th pct · 2,840th of 3,063 US counties · median $230,451
- 15th pct · 54th of 64 Louisiana counties · median $170,587
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Catahoula Parish, LA | $119,514 · +14.8% 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
- Louisiana 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 $662 a month on $119,514 at 7.40%, against an average weekly wage worth $3,363 a month: 19.7% of one job’s pay.
- payment = P·r / (1 − (1+r)^−n), P = $119,514 × 80% = $95,611, r = 7.40%/12 (Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED, 2026-10-15), n = 360 → $662/mo principal and interest
- wage share = payment / (avg weekly wage $776 × 52 / 12 = $3,363) = 20% of one average job's pay (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all covered jobs)
- years of wages = $119,514 / ($776 × 52) = 3.0
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 #
2,325 jobs at 280 employers (2026 Q1); +2.6% jobs and +6.2% average weekly wage over the year
- 18th pct · 2,612th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 7th pct · 59th of 64 Louisiana counties · median 10,187
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Catahoula Parish, LA | 2,325 jobs · $776/wk · +2.6% YoY |
| NAICS sector | Jobs | Avg weekly wage | Location quotient | Jobs over the year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health care and social assistance | 471 | $639 | 1.35 | +7.5% |
| Construction | 298 | $1,202 | 2.44 | +29.6% |
| Retail trade | 268 | $554 | 1.18 | -2.5% |
| Professional and technical services | 180 | $409 | 1.12 | -2.7% |
| Wholesale trade | 67 | $1,280 | 0.75 | -13.0% |
| Agriculture, forestry, fishing | 63 | $651 | 3.75 | +8.6% |
| Mining, oil and gas | withheld | |||
| Utilities | withheld | |||
| Manufacturing | withheld | |||
| Transportation and warehousing | withheld | |||
| Information | withheld | |||
| Finance and insurance | 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 #
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 #
$247.5 m in deposits at 6 offices of 3 banks (SOD June 2026); HHI 4,416, highly concentrated. $70.0 m federal obligations in FY2026 (direct payments $61.5 m, grants $8.5 m), $30,092 per covered job
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| CLB The Community Bank | $148.9 m · 60.2% share · 3 offices | |
| Southern Heritage Bank | $51.8 m · 20.9% share · 2 offices | |
| Sicily Island State Bank | $46.8 m · 18.9% share · 1 office | |
| Catahoula, LA | $70.0 m FY2026 · $30,092/job | |
| MULTIPLE RECIPIENTS | $54.5 m · top recipient FY2026 |
| Institution | Deposits | Share | Offices |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLB The Community Bank | $148,929,000 | 60.2% | 3 |
| Southern Heritage Bank | $51,755,000 | 20.9% | 2 |
| Sicily Island State Bank | $46,807,000 | 18.9% | 1 |
Deposit concentration is 4,416 across 3 banks, which the 1995 Department of Justice bank merger screen calls highly concentrated.
HHI = Σ (share %)² over 3 banks with deposits in the county = 60.2² + 20.9² + 18.9² = 4,416
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 | $48,964,925 |
| Department of Transportation | $8,492,185 |
| Department of Agriculture | $5,733,873 |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | $5,212,633 |
| Department of Housing and Urban Development | $982,932 |
| Federal Communications Commission | $341,091 |
| Railroad Retirement Board | $122,557 |
| Department of the Interior | $114,575 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | $0 |
That is $30,092 per covered job, against 2,325 jobs in the 2026 Q1 QCEW quarter.
per job = FY2026 obligations $70.0 m / 2,325 covered jobs (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all ownerships) = $30,092
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 #
Catahoula Parish, LA: 12 findings, 12 noted
noteCatahoula Parish, LA's average weekly wage was 6.2% 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
- +6.2 % = 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
noteCatahoula Parish, LA's covered employment was 2.6% 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
- +2.6 % = 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
noteCatahoula Parish, LA's typical home value of +14.8% ranks 1st of 64 Louisiana counties, against a median of +2.5%.
Period 2026-09.Show the arithmetic
- 100 on the 0-to-100 scale across 64 Louisiana counties that published home.yoyPct
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
noteCatahoula Parish, LA's momentum index of 0.95 ranks 1st of 64 Louisiana counties, against a median of 0.15.
Period 2026-09.Show the arithmetic
- 100 on the 0-to-100 scale across 64 Louisiana counties that published momentum
- momentum = Σ wᵢ · clip(changeᵢ / scaleᵢ, −1, 1) / Σ wᵢ over the terms present; weights and scales: home value 1-yr change 0.3 (±10%), rent 1-yr change 0.15 (±10%), jobs over-the-year change 0.3 (±3%), avg weekly wage over-the-year change 0.25 (±6%)
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
noteCatahoula Parish, LA's typical home value of +14.8% ranks 17th of 3,062 US counties, against a median of +2.9%.
Period 2026-09.Show the arithmetic
- 99 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 12 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.