Tangipahoa Parish, LA
Housing, jobs, water, deposits and federal obligations for this county, each figure with the release it came from. Internal point 30.62, -90.41.
Assembled 2026-10-20. Read the brief.
- 46th pct · 1,647th of 3,063 US counties · median $230,451
- 76th pct · 16th of 64 Louisiana counties · median $170,587
- counties in the Hammond metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 1 counties in the Hammond metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- 29th pct · 2,147th of 3,062 US counties · median +2.9%
- 36th pct · 41st of 64 Louisiana counties · median +2.5%
- counties in the Hammond metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 1 counties in the Hammond metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- 32nd pct · 920th of 1,358 US counties · median $1,506
- 41st pct · 15th of 25 Louisiana counties · median $1,356
- counties in the Hammond metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 1 counties in the Hammond metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- 83rd pct · 536th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 82nd pct · 12th of 64 Louisiana counties · median 10,187
- counties in the Hammond metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 1 counties in the Hammond metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- 23rd pct · 2,452nd of 3,221 US counties · median $1,039
- 28th pct · 46th of 64 Louisiana counties · median $1,033
- counties in the Hammond metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 1 counties in the Hammond metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- 58th pct · 1,272nd of 3,063 US counties · median 4.2
- 98th pct · 2nd of 64 Louisiana counties · median 3.0
- counties in the Hammond metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 1 counties in the Hammond 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 $221,760 (Sep 2026), +1.0% over one year, -1.8% over five
- 46th pct · 1,647th of 3,063 US counties · median $230,451
- 76th pct · 16th of 64 Louisiana counties · median $170,587
- counties in the Hammond metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 1 counties in the Hammond metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Tangipahoa Parish, LA | $221,760 · +1.0% 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 $1,315/mo (Sep 2026), +3.2% over one year; price-to-rent 14.0
- 32nd pct · 920th of 1,358 US counties · median $1,506
- 41st pct · 15th of 25 Louisiana counties · median $1,356
- counties in the Hammond metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 1 counties in the Hammond metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Tangipahoa Parish, LA | $1,315/mo · +3.2% 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 $1,228 a month on $221,760 at 7.40%, against an average weekly wage worth $4,000 a month: 30.7% of one job’s pay.
- payment = P·r / (1 − (1+r)^−n), P = $221,760 × 80% = $177,408, r = 7.40%/12 (Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED, 2026-10-15), n = 360 → $1,228/mo principal and interest
- wage share = payment / (avg weekly wage $923 × 52 / 12 = $4,000) = 31% of one average job's pay (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all covered jobs)
- years of wages = $221,760 / ($923 × 52) = 4.6
- price-to-rent = $221,760 / ($1,315 × 12) = 14.0
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 #
47,059 jobs at 3,987 employers (2026 Q1); -0.2% jobs and +0.5% average weekly wage over the year
- 83rd pct · 536th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 82nd pct · 12th of 64 Louisiana counties · median 10,187
- counties in the Hammond metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 1 counties in the Hammond metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Tangipahoa Parish, LA | 47,059 jobs · $923/wk · -0.2% YoY |
| NAICS sector | Jobs | Avg weekly wage | Location quotient | Jobs over the year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health care and social assistance | 6,805 | $785 | 0.96 | -3.5% |
| Retail trade | 6,400 | $722 | 1.40 | -2.3% |
| Accommodation and food services | 5,942 | $354 | 1.41 | +0.4% |
| Manufacturing | 2,602 | $1,142 | 0.69 | -11.1% |
| Transportation and warehousing | 2,350 | $1,127 | 1.18 | -0.3% |
| Wholesale trade | 2,218 | $1,293 | 1.23 | +17.2% |
| Administrative and waste services | 1,828 | $749 | 0.68 | +6.8% |
| Construction | 1,759 | $1,200 | 0.71 | -5.6% |
| Professional and technical services | 1,477 | $1,277 | 0.45 | +2.4% |
| Finance and insurance | 1,071 | $1,337 | 0.56 | -0.5% |
| Other services | 959 | $807 | 0.68 | +0.5% |
| Real estate and rental | 522 | $983 | 0.72 | +2.2% |
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 #
$3.9 bn in deposits at 31 offices of 13 banks (SOD June 2026); HHI 3,437, highly concentrated. $802.5 m federal obligations in FY2026 (direct payments $731.7 m, grants $69.5 m), $17,053 per covered job
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| First Guaranty Bank | $2.2 bn · 55.9% share · 6 offices | |
| Hancock Whitney Bank | $509.0 m · 13.2% share · 5 offices | |
| Regions Bank | $245.9 m · 6.4% share · 4 offices | |
| Tangipahoa, LA | $802.5 m FY2026 · $17,053/job | |
| MULTIPLE RECIPIENTS | $679.5 m · top recipient FY2026 |
| Institution | Deposits | Share | Offices |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Guaranty Bank | $2,158,098,000 | 55.9% | 6 |
| Hancock Whitney Bank | $508,986,000 | 13.2% | 5 |
| Regions Bank | $245,911,000 | 6.4% | 4 |
| Renasant Bank | $225,815,000 | 5.9% | 4 |
| BankPlus | $168,267,000 | 4.4% | 2 |
| Capital One, National Association | $155,605,000 | 4.0% | 2 |
| JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association | $151,640,000 | 3.9% | 1 |
| Gulf Coast Bank and Trust Company | $73,423,000 | 1.9% | 1 |
| American Bank | $45,230,000 | 1.2% | 1 |
| First American Bank and Trust | $43,368,000 | 1.1% | 1 |
Deposit concentration is 3,437 across 13 banks, which the 1995 Department of Justice bank merger screen calls highly concentrated.
HHI = Σ (share %)² over 13 banks with deposits in the county = 55.9² + 13.2² + 6.4² + … (10 more) = 3,437
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 | $573,155,706 |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | $102,510,792 |
| Department of Education | $45,589,793 |
| Department of Transportation | $36,784,304 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | $25,950,363 |
| Department of Housing and Urban Development | $9,095,148 |
| Department of Agriculture | $4,365,326 |
| Railroad Retirement Board | $3,824,937 |
| Department of Defense | $1,025,716 |
| Department of Justice | $174,999 |
| Department of Homeland Security | $45,250 |
| Small Business Administration | $1,913 |
That is $17,053 per covered job, against 47,059 jobs in the 2026 Q1 QCEW quarter.
per job = FY2026 obligations $802.5 m / 47,059 covered jobs (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all ownerships) = $17,053
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.
Public companies #
1 public company files with the SEC from a business address here (First Guaranty Bancshares, Inc.). The snapshot was pulled 2026-10-20; 1 of 1 carry financial facts. The county's jobs mix maps to 10 GICS sectors, led by Consumer Discretionary.
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| First Guaranty Bancshares, Inc. | FGBI · Nasdaq · Financials · HAMMOND, LA 70401 |
Snapshot pulled 2026-10-20: 1 filers, 1 with financial facts.
Public filers whose registered business address with the SEC falls in this county, from a committed snapshot of EDGAR's company_tickers_exchange file. A position is the centroid of the address's ZIP code (Census ZCTA) or, where the snapshot says so, of its city: it is not a building. Legal entities only - no officer, insider or shareholder data is read, and Forms 3, 4 and 5 are excluded everywhere. Sector exposure is the county's BLS QCEW jobs mix bridged to GICS sectors by a convention documented in lib/companies/sectors.ts; a jobs mix is not a portfolio.
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 | 17.40 | 2026-10-19 | -3.1% |
| 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 | 2026-10-20 | +0.0% |
| Laredo truck crossings, monthly · trucks | 255,129.00 | 2026-09-01 | -1.4% |
| 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 | 1,221.00 | 2026-09-01 | -5.2% |
| Building permits, annual rate · thousands of units | 1,400.00 | 2026-09-01 | -0.2% |
| 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 #
Tangipahoa Parish, LA: 9 findings, 3 at a watch level and 6 noted
watchTangipahoa Parish, LA's covered employment is -0.2% 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 = -0.2 < 0
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published; not an official level
watchTangipahoa Parish, LA's price-to-rent ratio of 14.0 scores 19 on the 0-to-100 scale across US counties but 67 across Louisiana counties, a gap of 48 points.
Period 2026-09.Show the arithmetic
- 48 = |19 across US counties - 67 across Louisiana counties|
- 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
watchTangipahoa Parish, LA's years of wages of 4.6 scores 58 on the 0-to-100 scale across US counties but 98 across Louisiana counties, a gap of 40 points.
Period 2026-09.Show the arithmetic
- 40 = |58 across US counties - 98 across Louisiana counties|
- typical home value / (average weekly wage × 52); one average covered job, not a household
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
noteTangipahoa Parish, LA's average weekly wage was 0.5% 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
- +0.5 % = 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
noteTangipahoa Parish, LA's covered employment was 0.2% 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
- -0.2 % = 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
Read all 9 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.