Washtenaw County, MI
Housing, jobs, water, deposits and federal obligations for this county, each figure with the release it came from. Internal point 42.25, -83.84.
Assembled 2026-10-19. Read the brief.
- 87th pct · 384th of 3,063 US counties · median $230,451
- 95th pct · 5th of 83 Michigan counties · median $225,043
- counties in the Ann Arbor metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 1 counties in the Ann Arbor metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- 43rd pct · 1,723rd of 3,062 US counties · median +2.9%
- 6th pct · 78th of 83 Michigan counties · median +5.3%
- counties in the Ann Arbor metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 1 counties in the Ann Arbor metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- 79th pct · 279th of 1,358 US counties · median $1,506
- 92nd pct · 4th of 40 Michigan counties · median $1,387
- counties in the Ann Arbor metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 1 counties in the Ann Arbor metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- 95th pct · 151st of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 95th pct · 5th of 83 Michigan counties · median 12,414
- counties in the Ann Arbor metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 1 counties in the Ann Arbor metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- 93rd pct · 209th of 3,221 US counties · median $1,039
- 97th pct · 3rd of 83 Michigan counties · median $1,045
- counties in the Ann Arbor metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 1 counties in the Ann Arbor metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
- 68th pct · 975th of 3,063 US counties · median 4.2
- 79th pct · 18th of 83 Michigan counties · median 4.0
- counties in the Ann Arbor metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 1 counties in the Ann Arbor 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 $411,983 (Sep 2026), +2.4% over one year, +19.4% over five
- 87th pct · 384th of 3,063 US counties · median $230,451
- 95th pct · 5th of 83 Michigan counties · median $225,043
- counties in the Ann Arbor metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 1 counties in the Ann Arbor metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Washtenaw County, MI | $411,983 · +2.4% 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 $1,917/mo (Sep 2026), +1.8% over one year; price-to-rent 17.9
- 79th pct · 279th of 1,358 US counties · median $1,506
- 92nd pct · 4th of 40 Michigan counties · median $1,387
- counties in the Ann Arbor metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 1 counties in the Ann Arbor metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Washtenaw County, MI | $1,917/mo · +1.8% 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 $2,282 a month on $411,983 at 7.40%, against an average weekly wage worth $6,630 a month: 34.4% of one job’s pay.
- payment = P·r / (1 − (1+r)^−n), P = $411,983 × 80% = $329,586, r = 7.40%/12 (Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED, 2026-10-15), n = 360 → $2,282/mo principal and interest
- wage share = payment / (avg weekly wage $1,530 × 52 / 12 = $6,630) = 34% of one average job's pay (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all covered jobs)
- years of wages = $411,983 / ($1,530 × 52) = 5.2
- price-to-rent = $411,983 / ($1,917 × 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 #
215,472 jobs at 9,871 employers (2026 Q1); -1.4% jobs and +4.4% average weekly wage over the year
- 95th pct · 151st of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
- 95th pct · 5th of 83 Michigan counties · median 12,414
- counties in the Ann Arbor metro: Rank context is unavailable: the manifest lists 1 counties in the Ann Arbor metro; fewer than 5 is too few to rank.
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Washtenaw County, MI | 215,472 jobs · $1,530/wk · -1.4% YoY |
| NAICS sector | Jobs | Avg weekly wage | Location quotient | Jobs over the year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health care and social assistance | 29,008 | $1,334 | 0.89 | -0.3% |
| Professional and technical services | 17,393 | $2,408 | 1.17 | -1.4% |
| Retail trade | 16,256 | $798 | 0.77 | -2.1% |
| Accommodation and food services | 13,332 | $536 | 0.69 | -1.6% |
| Manufacturing | 10,849 | $1,716 | 0.63 | -3.9% |
| Wholesale trade | 6,246 | $1,982 | 0.76 | -4.2% |
| Other services | 5,437 | $948 | 0.84 | +3.2% |
| Administrative and waste services | 5,084 | $1,043 | 0.42 | -4.6% |
| Construction | 4,819 | $1,474 | 0.43 | -0.1% |
| Information | 3,778 | $3,300 | 0.95 | -3.5% |
| Finance and insurance | 3,347 | $2,588 | 0.38 | -10.2% |
| Educational services | 3,283 | $920 | 0.71 | -10.0% |
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 #
No drought class at this point (USDM covers the United States only)
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 #
$12.0 bn in deposits at 71 offices of 15 banks (SOD June 2026); HHI 1,093, moderately concentrated. $3.4 bn federal obligations in FY2026 (direct payments $2.0 bn, grants $994.8 m), $15,972 per covered job
| Item | Value | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association | $2.4 bn · 19.7% share · 8 offices | |
| Bank of Ann Arbor | $1.6 bn · 13.4% share · 6 offices | |
| The Huntington National Bank | $1.4 bn · 11.5% share · 10 offices | |
| Washtenaw, MI | $3.4 bn FY2026 · $15,972/job | |
| MULTIPLE RECIPIENTS | $1.9 bn · top recipient FY2026 |
| Institution | Deposits | Share | Offices |
|---|---|---|---|
| JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association | $2,361,076,000 | 19.7% | 8 |
| Bank of Ann Arbor | $1,611,400,000 | 13.4% | 6 |
| The Huntington National Bank | $1,381,494,000 | 11.5% | 10 |
| PNC Bank, National Association | $1,199,301,000 | 10.0% | 7 |
| University Bank | $1,061,347,000 | 8.8% | 2 |
| Fifth Third Bank, National Association | $1,042,249,000 | 8.7% | 8 |
| KeyBank National Association | $990,717,000 | 8.2% | 8 |
| Bank of America, National Association | $752,204,000 | 6.3% | 3 |
| Old National Bank | $420,938,000 | 3.5% | 5 |
| Chelsea State Bank | $363,077,000 | 3.0% | 3 |
Deposit concentration is 1,093 across 15 banks, which the 1995 Department of Justice bank merger screen calls moderately concentrated.
HHI = Σ (share %)² over 15 banks with deposits in the county = 19.7² + 13.4² + 11.5² + … (12 more) = 1,093
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 | $1,737,464,987 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | $806,836,873 |
| Department of Defense | $281,693,828 |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | $159,328,327 |
| Department of Education | $107,678,186 |
| National Science Foundation | $79,434,191 |
| Department of Commerce | $69,494,225 |
| Department of Housing and Urban Development | $52,188,491 |
| Department of Transportation | $41,002,245 |
| National Aeronautics and Space Administration | $28,117,652 |
| Environmental Protection Agency | $22,903,901 |
| Department of Energy | $11,804,584 |
That is $15,972 per covered job, against 215,472 jobs in the 2026 Q1 QCEW quarter.
per job = FY2026 obligations $3.4 bn / 215,472 covered jobs (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all ownerships) = $15,972
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 · % | 73.84 | 2026-10-19 | not published |
| 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 #
Washtenaw County, MI: 15 findings, 2 at a watch level and 13 noted
watchWashtenaw County, MI's covered employment is -1.4% 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 = -1.4 < 0
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published; not an official level
watchWashtenaw County, MI's typical home value of +2.4% scores 44 on the 0-to-100 scale across US counties but 6 across Michigan counties, a gap of 38 points.
Period 2026-09.Show the arithmetic
- 38 = |44 across US counties - 6 across Michigan counties|
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
noteWashtenaw County, MI's average weekly wage was 4.4% 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
- +4.4 % = 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
noteWashtenaw County, MI's covered employment was 1.4% 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
- -1.4 % = 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
noteWashtenaw County, MI's typical asking rent rose 0.4% from $1,909 in August 2026 to $1,917 in September 2026, on Zillow ZORI.
Period 2026-09.Show the arithmetic
- +0.4% = (1916.5685477784539 - 1908.5455702472013) / 1908.5455702472013 × 100
- 1916.5685477784539 = Zillow ZORI, 2026-09
- 1908.5455702472013 = Zillow ZORI, 2026-08
Read all 12 findings in the full brief
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