Prince George's County, MD

Home values #

Typical home $421,250 (Sep 2026), -1.2% over one year, +7.4% over five

• 88th pct · 353rd of 3,063 US counties · median $230,451
• 52nd pct · 12th of 24 Maryland counties · median $417,647
• 9th pct · 21st of 23 counties in the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria metro · median $562,284

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 $1,957/mo (Sep 2026), +2.0% over one year; price-to-rent 17.9

• 81st pct · 252nd of 1,358 US counties · median $1,506
• 57th pct · 10th of 22 Maryland counties · median $1,875
• 14th pct · 19th of 22 counties in the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria metro · median $2,255

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 $2,333 a month on $421,250 at 7.40%, against an average weekly wage worth $6,617 a month: 35.3% of one job’s pay.

• payment = P·r / (1 − (1+r)^−n), P = $421,250 × 80% = $337,000, r = 7.40%/12 (Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED, 2026-10-15), n = 360 → $2,333/mo principal and interest
• wage share = payment / (avg weekly wage $1,527 × 52 / 12 = $6,617) = 35% of one average job's pay (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all covered jobs)
• years of wages = $421,250 / ($1,527 × 52) = 5.3
• price-to-rent = $421,250 / ($1,957 × 12) = 17.9

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 #

320,449 jobs at 19,030 employers (2026 Q1); -2.5% jobs and +3.5% average weekly wage over the year

• 97th pct · 94th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
• 86th pct · 4th of 24 Maryland counties · median 44,580
• 86th pct · 4th of 23 counties in the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria metro · median 38,075

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 #

D0 abnormally dry

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 #

low (0.00)

Σ wᵢ·termᵢ / Σ wᵢ = 0.35×0.00 / 0.35

Banks & federal dollars #

$14.5 bn in deposits at 105 offices of 16 banks (SOD June 2026); HHI 1,701, moderately concentrated. $9.3 bn federal obligations in FY2026 (direct payments $4.7 bn, contracts $4.2 bn), $29,094 per covered job

Deposit concentration is 1,701 across 16 banks, which the 1995 Department of Justice bank merger screen calls moderately concentrated.

HHI = Σ (share %)² over 16 banks with deposits in the county = 29.0² + 24.4² + 9.3² + … (13 more) = 1,701

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 $29,094 per covered job, against 320,449 jobs in the 2026 Q1 QCEW quarter.

per job = FY2026 obligations $9.3 bn / 320,449 covered jobs (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all ownerships) = $29,094

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 #

Prince George's County, MD: 16 findings, 4 at a watch level and 12 noted

1. watchPrince George's County, MD's covered employment is -2.5% 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.
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   • test: jobs.yoy.emp = -2.5 < 0

   BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published; not an official level

2. watchPrince George's County, MD's typical home value is -1.2% against a year earlier, a watch level here: typical home value below a year ago (arithmetic on Zillow ZHVI, county and metro files; not an official level). The previous published period is not in this table, so this is a standing level rather than a change.

   Period 2026-09.
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   • test: home.yoyPct = -1.2438204990236428 < 0

   arithmetic on Zillow ZHVI, county and metro files; not an official level

3. watchPrince George's County, MD's years of wages of 5.3 scores 70 on the 0-to-100 scale across US counties but 30 across Maryland counties, a gap of 40 points.

   Period 2026-09.
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   • 40 = |70 across US counties - 30 across Maryland 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

4. watchPrince George's County, MD's typical home value of $421,250 scores 89 on the 0-to-100 scale across US counties but 52 across Maryland counties, a gap of 36 points.

   Period 2026-09.
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   • 36 = |89 across US counties - 52 across Maryland counties|

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

5. notePrince George's County, MD's average weekly wage was 3.5% 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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   • +3.5 % = 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

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.