West Carroll Parish, LA

Home values #

Typical home $132,423 (Sep 2026), +9.8% over one year, +0.8% over five

• 10th pct · 2,740th of 3,063 US counties · median $230,451
• 23rd pct · 49th of 64 Louisiana counties · median $170,587

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 $733 a month on $132,423 at 7.40%, against an average weekly wage worth $3,280 a month: 22.4% of one job’s pay.

• payment = P·r / (1 − (1+r)^−n), P = $132,423 × 80% = $105,938, r = 7.40%/12 (Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED, 2026-10-15), n = 360 → $733/mo principal and interest
• wage share = payment / (avg weekly wage $757 × 52 / 12 = $3,280) = 22% of one average job's pay (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all covered jobs)
• years of wages = $132,423 / ($757 × 52) = 3.4

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 #

2,066 jobs at 239 employers (2026 Q1); +5.0% jobs and +1.3% average weekly wage over the year

• 16th pct · 2,682nd of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
• 4th pct · 61st of 64 Louisiana counties · median 10,187

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 #

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 #

42 gauges · 0 flooding · 5 with quality panels averaging 100 % · 14 stale

Sites found: 42, 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 #

16 wells in 0 named aquifers:

Sites found: 16, 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 (0.32)

Σ wᵢ·termᵢ / Σ wᵢ = 0.35×0.50 + 0.2×0.00 / 0.55

Banks & federal dollars #

$256.1 m in deposits at 6 offices of 5 banks (SOD June 2026); HHI 2,261, highly concentrated. $77.7 m federal obligations in FY2026 (direct payments $76.7 m, grants $1.0 m), $37,617 per covered job

Deposit concentration is 2,261 across 5 banks, which the 1995 Department of Justice bank merger screen calls highly concentrated.

HHI = Σ (share %)² over 5 banks with deposits in the county = 29.0² + 25.4² + 19.7² + … (2 more) = 2,261

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 $37,617 per covered job, against 2,066 jobs in the 2026 Q1 QCEW quarter.

per job = FY2026 obligations $77.7 m / 2,066 covered jobs (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all ownerships) = $37,617

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 #

West Carroll Parish, LA: 15 findings, 1 at a watch level and 14 noted

1. watchWest Carroll Parish, LA's years of wages of 3.4 scores 30 on the 0-to-100 scale across US counties but 73 across Louisiana counties, a gap of 43 points.

   Period 2026-09.
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   • 43 = |30 across US counties - 73 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

2. noteWest Carroll Parish, LA's covered employment was 5.0% 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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   • +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. noteWest Carroll Parish, LA's average weekly wage was 1.3% 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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   • +1.3 % = 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

4. noteWest Carroll Parish, LA's typical home value rose 0.9% from $131,257 in August 2026 to $132,423 in September 2026, on Zillow ZHVI.

   Period 2026-09.
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   • +0.9% = (132422.81469149518 - 131257.39072227204) / 131257.39072227204 × 100
   • 132422.81469149518 = Zillow ZHVI, 2026-09
   • 131257.39072227204 = Zillow ZHVI, 2026-08

5. noteWest Carroll Parish, LA's average weekly wage of $757 ranks 63rd of 64 Louisiana counties, against a median of $1,033.

   Period 2026 Q1.
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   • 2 on the 0-to-100 scale across 64 Louisiana counties that published jobs.avgWeeklyWage

   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.